Hello Doug,
u wrote in a message to Lutz Sauer:
 LS> You never played a resonator guitar? Some people call this type of
 LS> guitar Dobro. I do not :-)))), like Mark.
 DM> Oh ok.  I've seen those, and they are getting very popular
 DM> here.  The new ones look really nice.  I don't see that much
 DM> chrome on cars!
I never saw a chromed dobro, only steel bodies. But I knew they exist.
 DM> One of the local musicians that I've met, has a little
 DM> television show where he hosts other musicians to play and
 DM> sing while he accompanies them with slide on a "Dobro".  He
 DM> gives lessons and workshops, and is a good guitarist
 DM> himself. 
So look out, Dobro is a the name of a manufacturer of this guitars (owned by 
Gibson). National another.
 DM> When played well, those instruments can sound like a one
 DM> mand band. 
They in fact the loudest acoustics I ever heard ;-)
MFG,
   Lutz
l.sauer@f3215.n2426.z2.fidonet.org 
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