Like the classical, they’re played sitting down and on the lap. There are two types of steel guitars: the lap guitar we’ve been talking about and the pedal steel guitar. The pedal steel guitar is a breed that’s more like a harp with extra necks and a stand! As we said, a spec...
One of the first choices you’ll be faced with when deciding between all the different types of guitar is whether to get a steel string acoustic or a nylon string “classical” guitar (like theCordoba C5 Iberiapictured here). These are actually two quite different instruments with distinct pla...
Percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute);