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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 September 2024. American guitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman Bob Brozman, May 2007 Background information Born (1954-03-08) March 8, 1954 New York City, U.S. Died April 23, 2013 (2013-04-23) (aged 59) Ben Lomond, California Genres Blues, country blues, folk, gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime ...
The company initially manufactured only traditional folk instruments such as mandolins, tenor guitars and banjos, [3] but eventually grew to make a wide variety of stringed instruments, including violins, cellos, double basses and a variety of different types of guitars, including electric, classical, lap steel and semi-acoustic models.
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
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The Dobro or resonator guitar is a uniquely American lap steel guitar with a resonator cone designed to make a guitar louder. [ 15 ] : 109 It was patented by the Dopyera brothers in 1927, [ 15 ] : 109 but the name "Dobro", a portmanteau of DOpyera and BROthers, became a generic term for this type of guitar. [ 44 ]
The exhibit also will feature 40 instruments, along with wall banners and videos, recalling the guitar’s role at important points in American history, modern guitars and a Spanish vihuela from ...