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Originally Posted by michelej1
I didn't know his mother played a Hawaiian "lap" guitar. I'm not even sure what it is, but I know when Mick's Hawaiian band first started and they were doing polynesian music, they used hawaiian slide guitar. It's like Rick's musical history came full circle.
Michele
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It's the non-PEDAL steel guitar...and yes, you just hold (the smaller ones) on your lap, to play them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar
If you listen to any Hank Williams Sr recordings, that's lap steel you hear, for at least all of them, that I'm aware of.
Btw, the last member of Hank Williams' band, The Drifting Cowboys, Don Helms(the steel guitar player), died last winter. I had met him several times, and attended a benefit in Nashville, for his family, last March, not long after his death.