It’s a good way to see if the instrument is for you or not. You don’t have frets to deal with and intonation is done by the player manually with the bar, so cheap budget steel guitars are a lot more playable than you might expect. Lapsteel guitars are (or at least can be) a lot less complex than Spanish guitars to manufacture. I started with an electric lapsteel and I think it’s perhaps the easiest and definitely the cheapest to start with. I’d recommend researching different types of steel guitar as they all sound and play differently and there’s a lot of beautiful music out there with steel guitar in it. Dobro and pedal steel have pretty different techniques for example. It’s an instrument family, not really a singular instrument. I’ve been playing steel guitar for a few years now and while I’m self-taught and I haven’t played many guitars at all to compare, I hope I can at least bring a few tips or observations: If it was my posts you’re referring to then I’m glad you found them inspiring
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