Resonator Guitar Sites

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...

Custom handmade steel and brass resonator guitars. My name is Matt Eich and I, along with my brother Phil and Adam Smith, build handmade steel and brass bodied single cone and tricone resonator guitars. After witnessing Kelly Joe Phelps play his resonator at a show here in Michigan I left wondering if I could use my guitar making skills I learned at Huss and Dalton Guitars to make metal bodied...

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...

You don’t have to get in a Time Machine to find that expensive Vintage Collectible—it’s here for you right now at an amazingly affordable price! The new Regal RC-43 Triolian-style metal-body guitar has the sound, the feel and the LOOK of that 80-year-old Collectible you’ve been dreaming of! With its steel body nickel-plated in an antique finish, you can hardly believe this is a new guitar. The...

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 only reinforce what the other testimonials here said. I would encourage anyone in the market for a new resonator guitar to contact Tom Warner to build one with your specif...". "Tom Warner built a very beautiful guitar for me which was immediately put to use the day I recieved it. We used an SM 81 mike in the studio on it and found all the strings were ...". Quarterman, Scheerhorn, or...

Frailer's Guitar Shop have a large range of Acoustic, Electric, Resonator Guitars & Banjos, We stocks well over 500 instruments from Martin, Fender, Gibson, Taylor and many more. We specialize in used and vintage American guitars and banjos, including Gibson, Martin, Guild, Fender, Rickenbacker, Gretsch, Larrivee, National, Dobro, Santa Cruz, Collings etc. All our instruments are checked and...

Guitar Case & Accessory Boutique - CaseParlor has cases for guitar, banjo, mandolin and other musical instruments. Easily searchable and sortable. 0 Size Banjo Classical Dreadnaught Electric Guitar Foam Core Folk Size Gypsy Jazz Hardcase Medium Size OOO Size OO Size Parlor Case Premium Plush Resonator Single O Standard Plush Thinbody Tweed. We are temporarily using the PayPal portal for order...

"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...

Custom builder of resonator guitars, repair and setups on dobro style squareneck instruments, Dan Burke of Freeport, Maine. For visiting the Burke Resophonic website. The custom instruments pictured here are built by me in my shop here in Freeport, Maine. The designs are my own, based on instruments I've seen and played. The solid wood, open construction "modern" style body type is where I've...

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...

Resophonic tin can banjo and ukulele,also 5 string guitar: hand spun resonator cones, folded metal headstock. Steel banjo strings.Pick-up optional for the ukulele. Visit rosbilt.com. Also send me an e-mail for more info at ironuke@thegreatmush-uke.com Or please visit my booth at any of this years shows listed in the sidebar below. Visits to the workshop are appreciated but only on appointment,...