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Dobro

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Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. [1]

31 relations: Adolph Rickenbacker, Aluminium, Brand, Division (business), Electric guitar, Epiphone, Generic trademark, Gibson, Jerry Douglas, John Dopyera, Johnny Cash, Lap steel guitar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mosrite, Musical instrument, Nashville, Tennessee, National String Instrument Corporation, Old 97's, Original Musical Instrument Company, Plywood, Regal Musical Instrument Company, Registered trademark symbol, Resonator guitar, Resonator mandolin, Ride This Train, Roy Acuff, Semie Moseley, Slovak language, Solid body, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, World War II.

Adolph Rickenbacker

Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1886 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American electrical engineer who co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company along with George Beauchamp and Paul Barth.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Brand

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.

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Division (business)

A division of a business, sometimes called a business sector or business unit (segment), is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Epiphone

Epiphone is an American musical instrument manufacturer founded by Anastasios Stathopoulos, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Generic trademark

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, due to its popularity or significance, has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, usually against the intentions of the trademark's holder.

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Gibson

Gibson Brands, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corp.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and consumer and professional electronics from Kalamazoo, Michigan and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Jerry Douglas

Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American resonator guitar and lap steel guitar player and record producer.

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John Dopyera

John Dopyera (born Ján Dopjera; 1893–1988) was a Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur, and a maker of stringed instruments. His inventions include the resonator guitar and important contributions in the early development of the electric guitar.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd, or informally shortened to Skynyrd, is an American rock band best known for having popularized the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.

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Mosrite

Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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National String Instrument Corporation

The National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.

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Old 97's

Old 97's is an American alternative country band from Dallas, Texas, United States.

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Original Musical Instrument Company

Original (formerly "Original Musical Instrument Company", also known for its acronym "OMI") is an American brand currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Plywood

Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.

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Regal Musical Instrument Company

The Regal Musical Instrument Company was established in 1908 in Chicago.

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Registered trademark symbol

The registered trademark symbol (®) is a symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office.

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Resonator guitar

A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top).

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Resonator mandolin

A resonator mandolin or "resophonic mandolin" is a mandolin whose sound is produced by one or more metal cones (resonators) instead of the customary wooden soundboard (mandolin top/face).

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Ride This Train

Ride This Train is the eighth album by country singer Johnny Cash.

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Roy Acuff

Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter.

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Semie Moseley

Semie Moseley (June 13, 1935 – August 7, 1992) was a luthier and the founder of Mosrite.

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Slovak language

Slovak is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, and Sorbian).

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Solid body

A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly receive the vibrations of the strings.

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The Ballad of Curtis Loew

"The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is a song written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant and recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobro

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