Gretsch has announced a small but significant expansion to its 2025 catalogue as the brand ... The square necked resonators are played flat on your lap like a lap-steel. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Available in Broadway Jade, Tahiti Red and Vintage White, the G5700 lap steel has a mahogany slab body, a 28-fret plastic fingerboard and a comfortable 22.5” scale length. A lap steel might be a ...

Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long associated with Hawaiian music — into blues, rock and funk to dazzling effect, died Dec. 24 at his home ...

The new Mahalo MLG1 Lap Steel nails that association with the Polynesian island, thanks to a beautifully rendered surfboard-shaped basswood body. The guitar is topped and tailed with a raised chrome ...

Megan’s first lap steel, a Rickenbacker, was made of heavy Bakelite. “My back was starting to kill me,” she said. She designed her own instrument, made of lightweight poplar: the Beard ...

Darick Campbell, a lap steel guitarist with the gospel band the Campbell Brothers, who took the musical style known as sacred steel from Pentecostal churches to the international stage, died May ...

The lap steel guitars in Ryan Rukavina's Missoula luthier shop don't look like anyone else's. They have balanced but asymmetrical curves on either side of the wide necks, and the custom-built ...

Most importantly, I just friggin’ love the sound of lap steel over metal; these two things were meant to go together, and haven’t nearly enough in metal’s 50-year history. The audience for something ...

Gretsch has announced a small but significant expansion to its 2025 catalogue as the brand unveils a limited edition ... The square necked resonators are played flat on your lap like a lap-steel.