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Hadean Labradoodle Red Lap Steel

  • A full size, 36 fret, lap steel guitar

  • Individually adjustable string height and saddle intonation

  • Poplar body and rosewood fretboard

  • Diecast chrome tuners, volume control, and tone control

  • Single coil pickup

    • Qty Price: $79.95

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    This full size popular body lap steel features 36 frets and offers a single coil pickup for clear and bright sound. Unlike a typical guitar, the strings of a lap steel are not pressed to a fret when sounding a note; rather, the player holds a metal slide called a steel (or tone bar) in one hand, which is moved along the strings to change the instrument's pitch while the other hand plucks or picks the strings. It is perfect for Blues, Rock, Hawaiian, Country, Bluegrass, and Western Swing. This lap steel has a fully adjustable bridge that allows you to adjust overall string height and individual string intonation. The strings are spaced widely, with 3/8" between each one. This makes it very easy and enjoyable to play. The single coil pickup has 8K ohm resistance.
    Measurements
  • Overall length: 33 1/8"
  • Body length: 12 7/8""
  • Scale length: 22 3/4"
  • Width at lower bout: 8 1/4"
  • Width at upper bout: 5 7/8"
  • Width at the nut: 2" at the 12th fret: 2 1/4"
  • String spacing at the nut 5/16" (1 3/4" overall)
  • String spacing at the bridge 3/8" (2" overall)
  • Body thickness: 1 5/8"
  • Body width at lower bout: 7 1/8" upper: 5 3/4"
  • String sizes: .011, .015,.022w,.028,.036,.052

    Wiring Info

    • Q: Are hard cases available for this instrument?
    A: Yes! To see the suggested hard case for any item listed at rondomusic.com, simply put that item into the shopping cart. The suggested hard case will then appear if one is available.

    Q: How do you tune it?
    A: The lap steel comes from the factory tuned to Open G (D-G-D-G-B-D). Blues and Rock players tend to favor Open G and Open A. Open A raises each of the notes a whole-step (2 frets) to E-A-E-A-C#-E. Open D and Open E are also commonly used. Open D is tuned D-A-D-F#-A-D, and open E is a whole-step higher: E-B-E-G#-B-E. Joe Perry of Aerosmith uses Open E on his electric lap steel. David Lindley is another player who uses transposed variations of these tunings. Bluegrass and Country Dobro players tend to favor an altered G tuning, often called "High-G", where the 6th string is tuned up to "G" instead of down to "D", and the 5th string is also tuned up, to B: G-B-D-G-B-D. They also sometimes raise it up to "High-A": A-C#-E-A-C#-E.