We will start at taking a brief look at the history surrounding the companies that built the early Dobro® guitars. The most complimentary thing that can be said about the consistency of the companies in this pre-war era is that "During this period of time, the companies were consistently inconsistent." Since so little information is available in one location concerning pre-war instruments, this is an effort to cover in-depth the guitars which fall into that category, which were made by the companies involved in their manufacture from 1928-1941.īefore we look at the various models produced by these companies, it is important to understand the following: Just when you think you have all the pertinent information about a particular model or event, along comes a variation in one thing or another which is totally unexpected. It is, after all, the preferred instrument for a bluegrass band setting. The neck is a Dobro (the brand of resonator guitars) which Eric had fitted to a resonator guitar body from an unknown manufacturer.By Randy order to keep this in a manageable format and size, only wooden-bodied screen hole resonator guitars will be addressed in this article. It is a composite of two separate resonator guitars. In 1994, Gibson Guitar bought the "Dobro" trademark iand announced they would defend the right to the exclusive use of "Dobro".Īccording to Lee Dickson, Eric Clapton’s former guitar technician, Eric plays an old resonator guitar that was purchased many years ago. As time passed, the brand name "Dobro" passed into common usage to describe all resonator guitars, no matter who manufactured it. In later years, other companies also built the instruments. and set the standard for single resonator guitars. patent conflict between the two guitars so Dobro Manufacturing changed their design. Resonator guitars were also made by the National String Instrument Corporation in the 1920s and 1930s. They sound closer to a banjo than an acoustic guitar because of the metal resonator. They are easy to spot as they are acoustic guitars with a large metal resonator cone built into the body. It was the result of trying to build a louder guitar in the pre-amplification days. Resonator guitars were invented in the United States by the Doyera brothers, who founded Dobro Manufacturing in 1928. A Dobro is actually a brand of resonator guitar.
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