Some p90s are of course hotter than others, but my personal favorite is Vintage Soapbar, or even the Antiquity p90 for when I’m in a ‘vintage correct’ mood! Fit a p90 in your lapsteel and you’ll be rewarded with a sweet yet raunchy tone. Often, they look like a p90 but they don’t sound that nice. Some lapsteel guitars are fitted with a p90-ish kinda pickup. So… Here’s my low-down of my favorite pickups for a lapsteel guitar. Yet, electric slide-guitars are also in the plenty and from what I’m seeing, most of those aren’t really equipped with pickups good enough to fully capture the amazing tones of the instrument. There are a couple of acoustic slide-guitars, like the Weissenborn (with its unique hollow neck construction) as well as the dobro or any other resonator guitar. Lapsteel guitars, or simply lapsteels, are instruments that are a bit like a regular guitar but with the action quite a bit higher so your slide doesn’t hit the frets all the time.
Which is perhaps striking, since that guitar was preceded and followed by ‘electrified’ lapsteel guitars.
After all, the first real electric guitar is still open for debate, all though I guess we can all safely assume it’s the Slingerland Songster Model 401 by now. I suppose it’s easy to forget the origins or the modern electric guitar.
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