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Dobro
The word
Dobro
is, in popular usage, the generic term for a wood-bodied, single cone
resonator
guitar
. It is also an
American
brand
of
resonator guitar
, currently owned by the
Gibson Guitar Corporation
. The Dobro was originally made by the
Dopyera
brothers when they formed the
Dobro Manufacturing Company
. Their design, with a single inverted resonator, was introduced in competition to the patented Tricone and biscuit designs produced by the
National String Instrument Corporation
. The Dobro name appeared on other instruments, notably electric
lap steel guitars
and
solid body
electric guitars
and on other resonator instruments such as Safari
resonator mandolins
.
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