Hawaiian Steel Guitar

About Hawaiian Steel Guitar

The Hawaiian steel guitar, played by gliding a steel bar across raised strings to produce a singing, sliding tone. Invented in Hawaii around the turn of the 20th century, it swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s and directly shaped country, blues, and slide guitar. Sol Hoʻopiʻi was its greatest virtuoso, and its influence on global music is immense.

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