I am buying my boyfriend a steel guitar for our one year anniversary and I was curious what brand or company I should look into. I want something high quality yet traditional. Money is not really an issue but I don't exactly want to spend an arm and a leg either.Thank you in advance!
The term steel guitar usually refers to pedal steel guitar or lap steel guitar. I suspect that you really meant to ask about a steel stringed guitar for your boyfriend. Steel guitars are played with a slide and are usually electrified. A pedal steel guitar site on legs and a lot of the chord changes are made with knee levers or foot pedals. If that's what your boyfriend is looking for, expect to spend a couple of thousand dollars. Look for brands like Emmons, Carter, Sho-Bud, or Fessenden. Carter Starters have been discontinued, but you might find one for under a thousand.
Pedal steel or lap steel? Or do you perhaps mean a steel-STRING guitar, or a steel-bodied resonator guitar? Might help weed out irrelevant replies if you were to clarify.
Did Steel Guitar stand for guitar string ? If yes, there's many brand provide quality guitar string and also be famous brand. you can buy such as D'addario, Errnie ball, GHS, Blue Steel. One more tips, for standard string gauge, if you want to surprise your boyfriend, buy .9 or .10 gauge set. This string set suitable for standard guitar, He'll be more happy if you give him 1 pack of string, buy if it over your price range, just 1 set is ok, haha. Happy Anniversary, Es. ;)
Hi, Since you haven't mentioned a price range, all I can say is that there are plenty of good guitar brands in the moderate to high price range. A good place to start would be to check out these brands - Martin, Taylor, Yamaha, Gibson. There are plenty more but these will get you started. In a lower price range - Epiphone, Takamine and Washburn have some nice guitars as well. There are a LOT of good brands that I haven't covered. These are just the usual suspects. Most of these will be good instruments and they vary in the quality of the wood used and in finer points of their design build, so don't worry too much about finding a 'gem'. Get one of the store staff members to play the guitars a little bit for you and you can pick out the one that sounds best. The sound is the most important. Happy hunting! :) Edit: jcr has a point. I assumed your're talking about a steel string acoustic.
