The slide guitar is typically a standard guitar, held the usual way, and fretted with a piece of metal or glass, typically a tube worn on one finger. The sound of the slide guitar can be quite similar to the steel guitar. Famous slide guitarists include Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters:

WHY DON'T YOU TRY RY?
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BONNIE RAITT
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Bonnie picked up the guitar at age nine, and was on her way toward mastering a unique fold and country blues style derived from listening to recordings by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell and John Hammond.

PLANET DOBRO
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An internet resource devoted to providing links to artists, music, labels and sites on the web for the culture of SLIDE GUITAR. After many years neglected in cult status, Slide Guitar and it's family of styles has landed feet first back in popular culture. Dobro, Bottleneck, Slide and Slack-key music permeates nearly all genres of music today, including television themes, movie scores, jingles and commercials. While appreciation for Blues, Hawaiian and Country traditions continues to rebound, new styles of slide playing are emerging, and old world styles of slide, as in India, are being discovered for the first time by western audiences.

Crash Course on Drop-D tuning Slide Guitar
by Kirk Lorange
www.onthenet.com.au/~kirkclan/Slide_Lesson.htm
"I have been playing slide guitar for about a third of a century. It's what I'm best known for DownUnder. I have played on many, many sessions over the years, album tracks, jingles and movie soundtracks. If you live down here you've heard me often on TV and radio commercials..."

BRAD'S PAGE OF STEEL
www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html
"lap steel guitar is held in your lap facing toward you" You've probably checked out this great resource already... Search for steel guitar, and this page always comes up first in Search Engines - how does he do that?!

HOW GUITARS WORK
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Hawaiian, or Steel, Guitar by Rickenbacker

Introduced in the United States around 1900, the Hawaiian, or steel, guitar differed from the standard Spanish-style guitar in that it was designed to be played horizontally with a sliding steel bar, a much easier technique than fingering the strings. The lap-steel and pedal-steel are variations of this instrument.

The ease of learning and playing the Hawaiian guitar made it popular with both users and teachers. Its alluring effect of sliding between notes endeared it especially to country and blues musicians.

Hawaiian guitars became the first and most popular style of electric guitars in the 1930s. The electric models were built out of solid wood, a type of construction that was not commercially adapted to Spanish-style guitars until the 1950s.

JUNIOR BROWN
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Junior Brown took the customization of his guitar a step further. To solve the problem of switching back and forth between a Spanish-style electric and a Hawaiian or lap-steel electric, Brown put the two together to form a new guitar, the "guit-steel" in 1985

Junior Brown Official site
www.juniorbrown.com

All-Music Guide Biography
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Junior Brown @ i-music
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"A lot of people tell me they don't like country music, but they like what I am doing," says Junior Brown. "I hear that line more than anything else," which is ironic because a couple of licks is all it takes to erase any doubts concerning Junior's stylistic allegiance. His music combines the soul of country and the spirit of rock n' roll.

Country Music
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CARTERS PEDAL STEEL GUITAR
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Steel Guitar builders providing professional quality pedal steel guitars at reasonable, factory-direct prices

THE STEEL GUITAR INFORMATION RESOURCE
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Resources/rec/897
a non-commercial, informational resource for Steel Guitarists and anyone interested in learning about the Pedal Steel Guitar.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR STRINGS - TUTORIAL
www.steelguitarinfo.com/strings/changeslideshow/sld001.htm
"You may find it useful to wedge a small piece of foam against the pin when you attach a new string to the pin type finger. This will help prevent the ball from slipping off the pin while you are winding it to pitch"

PEDAL STEEL GUITAR ILLUSTRATED
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manufacture and sell direct to the public professional level Pedal Steel Guitars

BUDDY MERRILL - A Pioneer of Electric & Steel Guitars
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Buddy Merrill's site is packed with information about the early days of electric and steel guitar. The "seedlings" of the instruments' popularity were planted way back with the ushering in of television. Buddy Merrill's performances playing a Fender Stratocaster on the most popular and longest running American Musical Show in American television history is considered to be the key turning point for Fender, believe it or not!

CHARLES FOX GUITARS
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Makers/rec/1112
a modern performance quality steel string acoustic guitar company

SHANNON GUITARS
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Makers/rec/1139
Quality handcrafted acoustic steel string guitars and instrument repairs

THE BLUE GUITAR
www.GuitarSite.com/database/Makers/rec/655
Luthiers Yuris Zeltins and Stephen Neal specialize in Steel String Acoustic, Jazz Archtop, and Dobro instruments.