The story starts in the early 1920's when George Beauchamp a California Vaudeville artist got John Dopyera a local luthier to start experimenting with variants of August Stroh's Horn Resonators and Banjo technology to make Guitars that were loud enough to compete with the brass instruments on stage. ![]() (There is a book by Bob Brozman that is suppose to cover all of this but I can't get a copy, so have not read it and am having to piece the story together from other sources that are often conflicting, trying to paint one side or the other as the reasonable party and the other as the difficult one? I'm going with what I have read that makes the most logical sense to me) Now onto a tricky story involving quite a few famous brands. ![]() it can get a bit more confusing here as to the brand name Dobro only refers to the single cone inverted resonators not any other other sort!!! IT DOESN'T MATTER! It's the brand name for a line of chordophones not the name of the product! Dobro was a maker of metal cone resonator instruments, not all metal cone resonator instruments are or were Dobros. Dobro is one of those names that have become so synonymous with the product that most people use the brand name rather than the actual name.
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