Steel guitar is:A method of playing slide guitar using a steel. Resonator guitars, including round necked varieties, are particularly suitable for this style, but other types are also used, usually with modified high actions, as well as instruments produced specifically for the purpose.A specialised instrument built for playing in steel guitar fashion. These are of several types:Lap steel guitar, which may be:Lap slide guitar, with a conventional wooden guitar box.The square-necked variety of resonator guitar.Electric lap steel guitar.Electric table steel guitar.Electric pedal steel guitar.
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Noun 1. guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect (synonym) Hawaiian guitar (hypernym) guitar