Premium Givson Mona Lisa 36" Electric Hawaiian Guitar

Steel Lap Slide Guitar. Double Hum-Bucking Pick-ups. Solid Rosewood. ABS Hardcase.  
Exclusive: Only Indian Electric Hawaiian Guitar with Steel Performance Stand.

64-inches long, Electric Hawaiian Guitar with solid Indian rosewood body. Beautifully finished and distinctively designed. Top quality double humbucking pick-ups. With detachable cord, tone and volume controls and quality steel slides and rings. Also has a three-legged steel stand for concert erformances. Features an adjustable bridge. Comes with ABS hard-case with one-year warranty on parts. A great piece to add to your guitar collection.

about the electric hawaiian lap steel guitar

This an instrument adapted from the acoustic Haiwaiian guitar. It is a slack key steel guitar that is usually played with a slide on the lap of the player and sitar-like plucking "ring" plectrums. It was developed through people who really loved the guitar and found its mellowness to be compatible to that of Indian ragas. A great instrument for fusion music between Hindustani classical and Western music. Gives a wonderfully enahnced sound for aficiandos of the Western acoustic Hawaiian guitar as well. Great for tweaking to get your kind of sound!

One of the people suggested as possibly inventing the method of playing guitar with a steel bar was an Indian-born sailor named Gabriel Davion. He is said to have based his playing style on two Indian instruments, the gotuvadyam and the vichitra vina. Indian music lends itself well to the fluid sound of the steel guitar. The acceptance and integration of non-Indian instruments into the rich Indian musical culture has made the steel guitar one of a handful of Western instruments to gain prominence. The first Indian artist to use a steel guitar within classical Indian music was Brij Bhushan Kabra. He modified an archtop guitar, raising the guitar nut, and including "sympathetic" strings, drone strings which are tuned to the raga being performed

Van Shipley was the first electric steel guitarist in India. The name Van Shipley is Methodist, he is from Lucknow UP. He designed his own electric eight string steel guitar in the 1940's. The reason he did this was that he'd studied Indian classical music under Ustad Alaudin Khan, the leading classical musician in India, who was also a contemporary of Ravi Shankar. Multiple Grammy-winning guitarist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also uses an adapted version of the slide guitar, except that he calls it the Vishwa-Veena.