Resonator Guitar Sites

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Johnny Bellar is a virtuoso performer on resophonic and lap steel guitars. Often called a Dobro after the first and most famous manufacturer of this instrument, the resophonic guitar has recently become a pervasive voice in modern recordings of country, rock and popular music. An acoustic instrument invented in the USA in the 1920's and usually played with a metal slide, the resophonic has a...

As a little kid there was music all around me. There were guitars, banjos, drums, a baby grand piano and lots of records. Late night jams were not uncommon. I started to play guitar at four years old, I also heard alot about my great uncle Elden Benge who hand made the famous Benge trumpets. With a propensity for taking things apart it wasn’t until around ten that I started putting things back...

Ithaca Guitar Works is located in "gorges" Ithaca, New York. We buy, sell, trade & consign vintage, used, new & collectible electric guitars, acoustic guitars, amplifiers, electric basses, acoustic basses, pedals, effects, stompboxes, banjos, mandolins, dobros, lap steel guitars, fiddles, violins, resophonic & resonator guitars. Looking for the perfect Gibson ES-335, Les Paul, SG, Firebird,...

While Gibsons had previously been made available with nut adjusters for Hawaiian playing, the first Gibson guitars intended specifically for playing in the Hawaiian style were the dual chambered HG-20, HG-22, and HG-24, unique feats of engineering with an inner baffle, in essence a second set of sides set 1 1/2" inside of the outer sides, attached to the top of the guitar, but ending one inch...

My custom hand-crafted ceramic guitar slides and bars for the bottleneck, Dobro/resonator, Weissenborn, lap steel, and pedal steel guitar player offer the discriminating player a new option when it comes to "tone"... a high-fire stoneware clay body coupled with a super-smooth, scratch-free, ultra-durable glazed surface. Stoneware has long been recognized as the "workhorse" of all functional...

"I can’t tell you how many times guitar players have asked me what kind of pickup I use. The sound is so true to my 1932 Gibson that I would never dare stray from the honesty of Highlander.". "Before installing a Highlander in my '36 National, I never thought I'd hear direct signal this present and realistic from a resonator guitar. More Highlanders please!". "The Highlander pickup has...

Vintage Nationals sells, buys, trades and restores National Guitars and Resonator guitars. Vintage Nationals has collected and specialized in vintage National Guitars. Our passion for vintage National Guitars has evolved into the business that is now the largest seller of vintage National Guitars in the world! Vintage nationals is also the #3 largest dealer of new National Guitars, National...

Unlike academic musicologists, who group the stringed instruments by how they are played (bowed, plucked, struck with a mallet; stopped or one string per pitch; frets or not, etc.) I like to think of them in structural terms: String tension carried by a frame and a box with the radiator perpendicular (harps), or parallel (Zithers, guitars, lutes and fiddles) to the strings, or tension carried...

The largest retailer of fine used, vintage, rare and collectible vinyl records online. A massive selection of over 2 million LPs & 45s. Free shipping offers! White was born south of Houston, Mississippi. He was a first cousin of B.B. King's mother (White's mother and King's grandmother were sisters). He is remembered as a player of National resonator guitars. He also played piano, but less...

The largest retailer of fine used, vintage, rare and collectible vinyl records online. A massive selection of over 2 million LPs & 45s. Free shipping offers! White was born south of Houston, Mississippi. He was a first cousin of B.B. King's mother (White's mother and King's grandmother were sisters). He is remembered as a player of National resonator guitars. He also played piano, but less...

Banjo Studio is a dealer for Deering, Ome, Pisgah, Nechville, & more banjos, as well as Collings Guitars. Contact us to find your next banjo or guitar! The Deering John Hartford banjo features a wooden grenadillo tone ring and produces a beautiful bright and "woody" tone. This banjo works great for bluegrass and more. The grenadillo tone ring allows the banjo to be much lighter in weight than a...