Dunlop #925 Chromed Ergo Tone Bar (D-925) This small, ergonomically designed guitar tonebar fits the three primary playing fingers.  Patterned after the Stevens bar, this style is often used by country dobro and blues lap steel players who lift the...

First Lessons Lap Steel Guitar by Jay Leach (Book and Online Audio) is a fun and easy approach to learning the lap steel guitar. Author Jay Leach explains the basics of the instrument including bar control, picking, and string groups, with fun exercises...

Cowboy Country Revisited - A Living Room Recording Scott Gerber, Bobby Lee and Cousin Elmo In the 1980's, Scott Gerber formed a band named Cowboy Country. For the next five years or so, they mostly played honky-tonks in Sonoma County, California.In...

"A Retrospective" by Michael Perlowin (CD) Michael Perlowin has produced 3 albums of classical music on pedal steel guitar.  This CD contains Mike's own favorites from those recordings, plus a live track from a chamber music concert.  The...

Most pedal steel manufacturers use this 2-part assembly to attach the pedal rods to the pedals.

Dunlop 920 Stainless Steel Tone Bar 3.25" x .875" This tonebar is made from high-quality stainless steel for bright tone and a long life. The Dunlop 920 7/8" tone bar is the standard size for 10 string pedal steel.  It is made of stainless steel and...

Dunlop Stainless Steel Tone Bar (918) This tonebar is made from high-quality stainless steel for bright tone and a long life. The Dunlop 918 3/4" tone bar is a small, light bar, ideal for 6-string lap steel or 8-string console steel guitarists.  It...

John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar - "Big Daddy"™ Pedal Steel Guitar Some pedal steel players prefer a large heavy bar to minimize the amount of downward pressure needed. This bar has incredible sustain as well. Diameter:...

John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar Pedal Steel This tone bar is the size and weight that most pedal steel players use. It has that great sustain that you need for all styles of playing, and weighs enough to avoid the hand fatigue of...

John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar, Bhattacharya Hindustani Slide This small tone bar was designed for the Hindustani style of playing, which is mostly single note melodies. It also works very well for children who are learning lap steel, as...

John Pearse #7380 Hawaiian Lap Steel, C6 Tuning C6th is the most popular tuning for lap steel, largely because of the ease of playing both major and minor chords. There is a lot of instructional material for this tuning, which was often called Am7 in...

John Pearse #7300 Hawaiian Lap Steel, A (major) Tuning The package says "Am Tuning", but we think that's a misprint.  A Major (not A minor) is the original tuning for traditional Hawaiian steel guitar.  These  plain "Silvered Steel" and...