Steel guitar

Japanese: スチール・ギター(英語表記)steel guitar
Steel guitar
A type of guitar used in popular music (illustration). It is placed horizontally, with a steel bar held in the left hand pressing down on the strings, and is played with a pick in the right hand. It is a typical slide guitar, and is also called the Hawaiian guitar because of its origins in Hawaii. The name steel guitar comes from the bar held in the left hand. It is said to have been invented by either Hawaiian Joseph Kekuku, James Hoa, or Gabriel Davion around the 1880s, and was used by placing an adapter on the upper bridge of a normal Spanish guitar, raising the strings above the fingerboard.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ポピュラー音楽で使用されるギターの一種(イラスト)。水平に置き左手に持った鋼鉄の棒(スチール・バー)で弦を押さえ,右手の義爪(ピック)で演奏する。スライド・ギターの代表的なもので,ハワイ起源のためハワイアン・ギターHawaiian guitarともいう。スチール・ギターの名は左手に持つ棒からきている。1880年代ころにハワイの人ジョゼフ・ケクク,ジェームズ・ホア,もしくはガブリエル・ダビオンのいずれかが考案したとされ,普通のスパニッシュ・ギターの上駒にアダプターを乗せ,弦を指板から高くして使っていた。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

<<:  Steel band

>>:  Steward, Julian H(aynes)

Recommend

Boxwood - Boxwood

It is an evergreen shrub of the family Ilex (APG ...

Tarāburs al-Sham (English spelling)

…It has been known as a port city since before th...

Coccolith - Coccolith (English spelling)

A calcareous disk that surrounds the cells of a s...

《Ishikawa Goemon》

…First performed at the Toyotakeza Theater in Osa...

Social life statistics indicators

In recent years, the economy and the environment s...

Fixed date payment - fixed date payment

…That is, entries of dates before the date of iss...

Ershad, HM (English spelling) ErshadHM

...However, due to a breakdown in unity within th...

George Steiner

British critic. Born in Paris to Austrian-Jewish ...

Arayudofu - Arayudofu

...The hot spring rises from the bed of the Haruk...

Octodontomys gliroides (English spelling) Octodontomysgliroides

...But the tail does not regenerate. The mountain...

Islam (English spelling)

1899‐1976 A poet from Bengal, India. A Muslim. He ...

Plasma lemma

…They are found in many places on Earth, includin...

Shimizu School - Shimizuha

A school of tea ceremony founded by Shimizu Dokan,...

Agave filifera (English spelling) Agavefilifera

… [Takabayashi Masatoshi]. … *Some of the termino...

"Iran problem" - Airuland Mondai

...These included those that sought to learn from...