A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...

Ask Heywood Henson why he loves hosting the Florida Steel Guitar Jam every year and his voice takes on the down-home quality of the instrument itself -- a warm, reverberating timbre that all but ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...