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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.
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.
Jimmy Day (born James Clayton Day; January 9, 1934 – January 22, 1999) [1] was an American steel guitarist active in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] His career in country music blossomed about the time the pedal steel guitar was invented—after pedals were added to the lap steel guitar .
This category is for musicians who play any form of resonator guitar, including the Dobro, National guitar, and other similar guitars. Pages in category "Resonator guitarists" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
The Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) is an American classical guitar nonprofit organization that was founded in 1973 at the National Guitar Convention sponsored by the American String Teachers Association. [1] [2] [3] The foundation offers
“America at the Crossroads: The GUITAR and a Changing Nation” exhibit is underway at Meridian's The MAX, Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience, and will run through May 11.
Day graduated from the Merit School of Music in Chicago as a kid, has a bachelor's degree in Jazz Guitar Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a master's degree in Jazz Guitar Performance from Manhattan School of Music. [1] Michael Day also studied music in Cuba at The National School for the Arts in Havana.
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted ... for the National and Dobro ... History of the American Guitar: 1833 to the Present Day. Backbeat.