The Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and early '30s was a pivotal era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before ... to put a detuning mechanism for individual strings in normal electric guitars, but these are somewhat rare and weird.

"I chose to play the steel-string acoustic guitar because it's cooler and more rock, compared to the warmer tones of the classical guitar," says Oshio. "I also really like Japanese folk songs ...