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dobro wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 epiphone dobros 3 references 4 external links toggle the table of contents dobro 23 languages български català čeština dansk deutsch español euskara فارسی suomi français bahasa indonesia 日本語 한국어 nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål português русский simple english slovenčina svenska українська اردو edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american guitar brand for the instrument in bluegrass and blues music commonly called a dobro see resonator guitar for other uses see dobro disambiguation this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources dobro news newspapers books scholar jstor may 2017 learn how and when to remove this message dobro manufacturing company type private 1928 1937 brand 1940 present industry musical instruments founded 1928 founder john dopyera fate merged with national to form national dobro co in 1935 1 brand then used by valco and other manufacturers headquarters united states products resonator guitars owner gibson 1993 present dobro d oʊ b r oʊ 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 as the dobro manufacturing company their guitar design with a single outward facing resonator cone was introduced to compete with the patented inward facing tricone and biscuit designs produced by the national string instrument corporation the dobro name appeared on other instruments notably electric lap steel guitars and solid body electric guitars and on other resonator instruments such as safari resonator mandolins history edit dobro style tenor guitar 1934 the roots of the dobro story can be traced to the 1920s when slovak immigrant john dopyera instrument repairman and inventor and musician george beauchamp were searching for more volume for beauchamp s guitars dopyera built an ampliphonic or resonator for beauchamp which was patented in december 1929 1 in mid 1929 dopyera left the national string instrument corporation to start the dobro manufacturing company along with his brothers rudy and ed and vic smith national continued operating under beauchamp barth et al 1 dobro is both a contraction of dopyera brothers and a word meaning good in their native slovak and in many other slavic languages an early company motto was dobro means good in any language in 1930 the dobro company name was changed to dobro corporation ltd with additional capital provided by louis and robert dopyera dobro was during this period a competitor of national 1 the dobro was the third resonator guitar design by dopyera but the second to enter production unlike his earlier tricone design which had three ganged inward facing resonator cones the dobro had a single outward facing cone with its concave surface facing up the dobro company described this as a bowl shaped resonator the dobro was louder than the tricone and cheaper to produce in dopyera s opinion the cost of manufacture had priced the resonator guitar beyond the reach of many players his failure to convince his fellow directors at national string instrument corporation to produce a single cone version was a motivating factor for leaving since national had applied for a patent on an inward facing single cone us patent 1808756 2 dopyera developed a design that reversed its direction the guitar s bridge rested on an eight legged cast aluminum spider sitting on the perimeter of the cone us patent 1896484 3 rather than on the apex of the cone as it did in the national design spider shape resonator detail in the following years both dobro and national built a wide variety of metal and wood bodied single cone guitars while national also continued with the tricone for a time both companies sourced many components from national director adolph rickenbacher and john dopyera remained a major shareholder in national by 1932 the dopyera brothers had gained control of both national and dobro which they merged to form the national dobro company by the 1940s national dobro had been purchased by valco 4 valco ceased production of dobro branded guitars after world war ii however the dopyera brothers continued to manufacture resonator guitars under various other brand names 5 in 1964 the dopyera brothers revived the dobro brand name they sold the name to semie moseley in 1966 in 1970 the dopyeras original musical instrument company omi yet again reacquired the dobro name 5 in 1993 the gibson guitar corporation acquired omi along with the dobro name 6 the company became gibson s original acoustic instruments division and production was moved to nashville in 2000 5 as of february 2012 dobros were manufactured by gibson subsidiary epiphone 7 as of january 2023 dobros were not listed on epiphone s website 8 the dobro was first introduced to country music by bashful brother oswald who played dobro with roy acuff starting in january 1939 9 the first and second prototypes of the dobro created by the brothers reside at the invention s birthplace of taft california in a museum about the town s oil production history 10 on june 19 2019 a 1933 dobro resonator guitar model 27 owned by david gilmour was sold at auction for a record 112 500 11 epiphone dobros edit existing and past models of resonator guitars manufactured by the gibson company are 7 hound dog round neck deluxe round neck deluxe square neck m 14 metal body gibson s phil leadbetter resonator series references edit 1 2 3 4 supro guitars and amplifiers by michael wright on vintage guitar us patent 1808756 beauchamp george d stringed musical instrument published june 9 1931 issued june 9 1931 us patent 1896484 dopyera rudolph musical instrument published february 7 1933 issued february 7 1933 chris mcmahon october 17 2013 the guitars that chicago built premier guitar 1 2 3 gibson brands gibson july 5 2014 us trademark registration number 0950801 united states patent and trademark office january 16 1973 1 2 epiphone bluegrass instruments epiphone february 13 2012 epiphone bluegrass collection epiphone january 23 2023 stacy phillips 2015 complete dobro player mel bay publications p 213 isbn 978 0786692026 museum in taft california taft midway driller november 10 2011 live auction 16980 the david gilmour guitar collection lot 39 christie s june 19 2019 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to dobro guitars history of the pre war dobro archived august 3 2021 at the wayback machine by randy getz v t e gibson key figures orville gibson founder lloyd loar ted mccarty seth lover les paul david harvey tom murphy mark agnesi guitars electric current eds 1275 es series es 175 es 335 es 355 explorer firebird flying v les paul melody maker sg discontinued gibson barney kessel byrdland blueshawk citation corvus es les paul es 150 es 225 es 295 es 330 es 345 es 350t futura gk 55 little lucille l 4 l 5 l6 s marauder moderne nighthawk the paul rd s1 sonex spirit super 400 335 s acoustic current j series j 160e j 45 j 200 dove hummingbird 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