Editing Guitar (section)

===Slides===
{{Main|Slide guitar}}
[[File:Fingandslide.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Example of a bottleneck slide, with [[fingerpick]]s and a [[resonator guitar]] made of metal]]
A [[slide guitar|slide]] or a [[steel bar|steel]] is a hard smooth object (a steel bar, round metal or glass bar or cylinder, neck of a bottle) commonly used in country music or blues music, to create a [[glissando]] effect made popular in [[Hawaiian music]] at the beginning of the 20th century. The slide is pressed against the strings by the non-dominant hand, instead of using player's fingers on frets; the strings are then plucked by the dominant hand. The characteristic use of the slide is to move up to the intended pitch by, as the name implies, sliding up the neck to the desired note. Historically, necks of bottles were often used in blues and country music as improvised slides, giving the name "[[bottleneck guitar]]" to a style of blues music. Modern slides are constructed of glass, plastic, ceramic, chrome, brass or steel bars or cylinders, depending on the weight and tone desired. An instrument that is played exclusively in this manner (using a metal bar) is called a [[steel guitar]] or [[pedal steel]]. In such case, the hard object is called a "steel" instead of a slide, and is the reason for the name "steel guitar". A [[Steel guitar#Resonator guitars|resonator guitar]] is a steel guitar built with a metal cone under the strings to make the instrument louder.