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 ...

Young started playing steel in Colorado as a six-year-old. He said it was common in those days - his parents had him start lessons in 1952 - for beginning guitarists to learn on lap steels, which are ...

Randolph began playing the steel guitar at the age of 16 in 1994, when Chuck Campbell, pedal steel player in the Sacred Steel unit the Campbell Brothers, bought him a $60 six-string lap steel model.