Lap Steel Guitar

Why:

• very melodic
• polyphonic
• very expressive - gestures can be huge or nuanced
• rich history as a jazz instrument
• underappreciated and underutilized
• can be amplified or sent through effects
• easy to practice quietly
• very approachable as a DIY instrument
• very affordable
• supports alternate scales and tuning systems like Just Intonation or 22 equal divisions of the octave
• many parallels to trombone, which I have played all my life