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The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National also produced resonator ukuleles and resonator mandolins. The company merged with Dobro to form the "National Dobro Company", then becoming a brand of Valco until it closed in 1968.
The National Guitar Museum (NGM) is a museum dedicated to the guitar's history, evolution, and cultural impact; and to promoting and preserving the guitar's legacy. The NGM addresses the history of the guitar as it has evolved from ancient stringed instruments to the wide variety of instruments created over the past 200 years. It focuses on the ...
They began producing resonator guitars under the name "National Reso-Phonic Guitars". Since 1990, the factory has been located in San Luis Obispo, California. It currently produces over 600 instruments annually, offering more than 50 different models including Scheerhorn guitars. The company also repairs and restores vintage National instruments.
André Millard (2004), The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, ISBN 0-8018-7862-4; Beaujour, Scapelliti (2013), Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, ISBN 978-1-61893-095-8; Neville Marten (2009), Guitar Heaven: The Most Famous Guitars to Electrify Our World, ISBN 978-0-06-169919-1
At the end of 1931, Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (elektRO-PATent-INstruments) to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis on their newly developed A-25 Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the "fry-pan" lap-steel electric guitar, as well as an Electric Spanish ...
Nigel Tufnel Mr. Horsepower Signature Guitar Music Man: 2001 25 produced [366] Nikki Stringfield: A-6 FR S Schecter: Available in bright red burst and Maiden Mist [367] Nita Strauss: JIVA, or JIVA10 Ibanez: 2018 First Ibanez signature guitar bearing a female guitarist's name; standard model [368] JIVAJR 2020 More affordable model [369] JIVAX2 2022
A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often generically called a "Dobro" [1]) is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones , instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars ...
One of the best known Kay electric guitars during the 1950s was the K-161 Thin Twin, most visibly used by blues artist Jimmy Reed. This instrument debuted in 1952, and featured a single cutaway body, a distinctive "fire stripe" tortoiseshell pickguard , and a pair of thin blade-style pickups .