C (0,036) | G (0,030) | G# (0,026) | B (0,022W) | C# (0,017) | E (0,015) |
Steel guitars were originally developed and popularized in Hawaii. Legend has it that Joseph Kekuku, a Hawaiian schoolboy, discovered the sound while walking along a railroad track strumming his guitar. He picked up a bolt lying by the track and slid the metal along the strings of his guitar. Intrigued by the sound, he taught himself to play using the back of a knife blade.
The steel guitar differs from a regular guitar in the way that it is played. The lap steel guitar is held in your lap facing toward you. The strings are raised above the fret board; rather than pressing them to the fret board, a steel bar is pressed against the strings. Typically the lap steel guitar is tuned in one of several "open" tunings rather than standard guitar tuning. Here are 3 other common steel guitar tunings.
*Suggested string gauges in brackets.
6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st |
E (0,054) | B (0,046) | E (0,036) | G# (0,028) | B (0,020) | E (0,016) |
G (0.052) | B (0,042) | D (0,034) | G (0,026) | B (0,020) | D (0,017) |
Below is one of the tunings as suggested by ABM for the Slider 6 string Lap Steel.
D (0,032 | E (0,028) | G# (0,022) | B (0,020) | C# (0,018) | E (0,015) |
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