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Originally Posted by Vindellama
I've noticed that when playing 2 adjacent strings at the same time with the thumb and index finger, the string played by the index gets muted.
It only happens when the strings are being pressed by the slide bar, and it doesn't seem that the thumb pick is touching the adjacent string.
What is the issue here?
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Are you playing lap steel or using "lap steel technique" on a guitar that has a radiused fretboard? If it's the later then the bar may not be making even contact with the outer strings, thereby muting will be a problem.
True lap steels (especially if they are set up correctly) will have the
tops of all strings in the same plane.