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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.
John elected to stay in Los Angeles and continue making instruments. He was never rich, and was famous only among a small circle of people who knew he had invented the resonator/resophonic guitar. He died at the age of 94 in 1988, having registered some 40 patents.
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 ...
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.
Harry F. Gerguson (born Hershel Geguzin, February 20, 1890 – September 1, 1971), known as Michael Romanoff, was a Hollywood restaurateur, con man and actor born in Lithuania.
In the 1930s, Del Vecchio began producing resonator guitars, [1] resulting in their most famous model: the Dinâmico, (their trade term for resophonic instruments). Current range of products manufactured by Del Vecchio includes classical and resonator guitars, banjos, mandolins, cavaquinho, and viola caipiras. [2]
The company was formed in 1989 by Don Young and McGregor Gaines in a Southern California garage. 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 ...
The resonator guitar was developed by John Dopyera, seeking to produce a guitar that would have sufficient volume to be heard alongside brass and reed instruments.In 1927, Dopyera and Beauchamp formed the National String Instrument Corporation to manufacture resonator guitars under the brand name National, adding resonator mandolins and ukuleles to their product line within the first year.