Editing Slide guitar (section)

== Lap slide guitar ==
[[File:Lapstyle.jpg|thumb|250px|Wooden resonator guitar played with a steel, angled to form a chord unavailable from straight open tuning.]]

"Lap slide guitar" does not refer to a specific instrument, rather a style of playing blues or rock music with the guitar  placed horizontally, a position historically known as Hawaiian style. This is a lap-steel guitar, but musicians in these genres prefer the term slide instead of steel; they sometimes play the style with a flat pick or with fingers instead of finger picks.{{Sfn|Herzhaft|1992|p=20}} There are various instruments specifically made (or adapted) to play in the horizontal position, including the following:
* a traditional guitar that has been adapted for lap slide playing by raising the bridge and/or the [[Nut (string instrument)|nut]] to make the strings higher off the fretboard;<ref name="perezcompl">{{cite book |last1=Perez |first1=Fernando |title=The Complete Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Method |date=2016 |publisher=Mel Bay |isbn=9781619115965 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xkxDwAAQBAJ&q=Page%204 |access-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>
* [[steel guitar]]s, (electrified) including [[lap steel]], [[console steel guitar|console steel]], and [[pedal steel]], in which a solid metal bar, typically referred to as a "steel", is pressed against the strings and is the source of the name steel guitar;
* a [[National guitar|National]] or [[Dobro]]-type guitar. These are typically acoustic steel guitars with a  [[Resonator guitar|resonator]].  Each manufacturer made wood and steel-bodied versions, but National is most associated with the latter.<ref name="sallissgmag">{{cite journal |last1=Sallis |first1=James |title=The Lap Steel Guitar |journal=Steel Guitarist |date=May 1, 1980 |volume=5 |issue=May, 1980}}</ref>{{rp|38}} The types do not sound the same — the Nationals are brassier and are usually preferred by blues players.<ref name="sallissgmag"/>{{rp|38}} Nationals can be played either in the traditional position or horizontally.
* a Hawaiian-style guitar modified by adding drone and sympathetic strings used in Indian classical music known as a [[mohan veena]].