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SKU: LS WEI SELECT



• abalone 'rising tide' fret markers
• BODY: Weissenborn-style Hawaiian
• TOP: select mahogany
• BACK & SIDES: select mahogany
• NECK: mahogany
• FINGERBOARD: Indian rosewood
• TUNERS: chrome-plated
• SCALE: 24.5"
• NUT: ox bone
• FINISH: gloss

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Luna's Weissenborn-style select acoustic lap steel features the same distinctive abalone fret markers as our High Tide series ukuleles. A full moon at the first fret tugs at the waves that grace the rosewood fingerboards.

Acoustic lap-style guitars first emerged in Hawaii in the 1890s, where players raised the action of their standard guitars, laid them flat on their laps, and learned to play melodies with a metal bar sliding along the strings. Los Angeles-based luthier Hermann Weissenborn refined the concept in the 1920s. Electric lap steels were developed in response for the desire for louder volume..