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Dobro es una marca estadounidense de guitarras resonadoras, actualmente propiedad de Gibson y fabricada por su subsidiaria Epiphone. Por extensión, el término "dobro" también se usa como un nombre genérico para cualquier guitarra resonadora de un solo cono con cuerpo de madera.
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar . The Dobro was originally a guitar manufacturing company founded by the Dopyera brothers with the name "Dobro Manufacturing Company".
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National tricone
John Dopyera, responding to a request by the steel guitar player George Beauchamp, developed the resonator guitar to produce an instrument that could produce sufficient volume to compete with brass and reed instruments. Dopyera experimented with configurations of up to four resonator cones and with cones composed of several different metals. In 1927, Dopyera and Beauchamp formed the National String Instrument Corporation to manufacture resonator guitars under the brand name "National". The fi...
Dobro
In 1928, Dopyera left National to form the Dobro Manufacturing Company with his brothers Rudy, Emile, Robert, and Louis, "Dobro" being a contraction of Dopyera Brothers' and also meaning "good" in their native Slovak language. Dobro released a competing resonator guitar with a single resonator with its concave surface uppermost, often described as bowl-shaped, under a distinctive circular perforated metal cover plate with the bridge at its center resting on an eight-legged aluminum spider. Th...
National biscuit
National countered the Dobro with its own single resonator model, which Dopyera had designed before he left the company. They also continued to produce the tricone design, which many players preferred for its tone. Both National single and tricone resonators remained conical, with their convex surfaces uppermost. Single resonator models used a wooden biscuit at the cone apex to support the bridge. At this point, both companies sourced many components from Adolph Rickenbacker, including the al...
Resonator guitars are popularly used in bluegrass music and in blues. Traditionally, bluegrass players used square necked Dobro-style instruments played as a steel guitar while blues players favored round-necked National-style guitars, often played with a bottleneck.
In bluegrass music
The resonator guitar was introduced to bluegrass music by Josh Graves, who played with Flatt and Scruggs, in the mid-1950s. Graves used the hard-driving, syncopated three-finger picking style developed by Earl Scruggs for the five-string banjo. Modern players continue to play the instrument this way, with one notable exception being the late Tut Taylorwho played with a flat pick. Tuning for the resonator guitar within the bluegrass genre is most often an open G with the strings pitched to D G...
In country music
The resonator guitar was used in older country music, notably by Bashful Brother Oswald of Roy Acuff's band, but was largely supplanted by the pedal steel guitar during the 1950s. Despite this, the instrument is still frequently used as an alternative to the steel guitar.James Burton and Grady Martin played flat picked dobro on many recordings. Leon McAuliffeinitially played a dobro before exclusively transitioning to electric lap and console steel guitars.
In blues music
The resonator guitar is also significant to the world of blues music, particularly the Southern style of country blues that grew out of the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana. Unlike country and bluegrass players, most blues players play the resonator guitar in the standard guitar position, with the fretboard facing away from the player. Many use slides or bottlenecks. Many players in the 1920s and 1930s, including Bo Carter, and others like Bukka White, Son House, Tampa Red and Blind Boy Fuller...
Single resonator guitars with a bowl resonator and spider (Dobro style) are often heard in bluegrass music, while tricone (National style) instruments are still preferred by many blues players. Single-resonator biscuit (also sometimes called National style) instruments are also produced, and give a different sound again. Many bluegrass players pref...
As well as resonator guitars, resonators have been used on: 1. Basses, available from Regal 2. Ukuleles, (see Resonator ukulele) produced by National and Dobro 1928-1940 3. Banjos 4. Tenor guitars 5. Mandolins and mandolas 6. Mountain/Appalachian dulcimers 7. Viola guitars
Historic brands of resonator guitar still in use today include National, Dobro, and Regal. None of these brands are still owned by their original companies. Each returned after one or more long breaks in production: 1. The National name is now used by National Reso-Phonic Guitars, a company founded in 1987 and unconnected to the original National, ...
Brahms guitar, a classical guitarthat features an external resonator.- 1920s
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Dobro es una localidad y una entidad local menor situadas en la provincia de Burgos, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León ( España ), comarca de Las Merindades, 1 partido judicial de Villarcayo, capital del ayuntamiento de Los Altos .
El dobro, guitarra resofónica, guitarra resonadora, o, simplemente, resonador es un instrumento de cuerda de la familia de los cordófonos similar en su apariencia a una guitarra, y de gran arraigo en el medio Oeste de Estados Unidos. Caracteristicas del dobro.
A dobro played on the lap. The name Dobro originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company. "Dobro" is both a contraction of "Dopyera brothers" and a word meaning "goodness" in their native Slovak. This six course (6x1) guitar has a squared-off neck with raised strings for Hawaiian-style playing.
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. [1] . He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prolific." [2] .