Dobro Blues

[danieltito1234]

13 people don't know really music or don't have ears

[dpashayan]

No, Regal is the manufacturer...unless Saga is the parent company. Not sure.

[Keepsu]

Saga makes Regal Resonators, no?

[bluegrasssingingman]

@Keepsu Yes they do.

[dpashayan]

Thanks...this is tuned to an open G on my old Regal Resonator.

[willistilis]

Love your style man! keep it up!

[letterli]

what tuning on this instrument?

[SkelpYourHead]

i want one.

[zafff13]

cool

[craneador82]

oh come on!! where the hell can i get a Dobro!!! i want one T-T

[15h0tmy531f]

sounds like bleached stratocaster blues. play a song man

[Losalpesd]

I have a Dobro brand guitar from the mid-1980's. It sounds much much different than the Regal and is different than a National too. Personally, I have played them all and like the Dobro best. They aren't that much more money than a Regal and the ones made in 20 years ago were great quality.

[holbirne93]

I guess in the past these guitars were pretty cheap and today you've got to pay millions of euros^^

[princebillE]

you sure are riffin..good sound outa that dobro/biscuit/resonator/whatev­er

[brewereric]

im feeling ya ....ya heard

[younglustdanielle]

genius!!

[kolialliotto]

Nationals are Banjos. Go buy a Dobro!

[Maysey1]

Nice playing! Hope you don't mind me sharing my video above. Take care!! Mark

[franmarshall]

bestia

[lm4life06]

not true. listen to some old bb king he can get some serious momentum going. many moods of blues

[lennon2007]

blues is meant to be played with heart try to play slower and let your notes ring this is not blues... it sounds ok tho.

[KuollutTelkka]

There is no rule that blues should be played slow.

[marorococa]

exactly it sould be played with the heart. if he feels like playing fast let him. srv played fast and hes considered god.

[RamboDobs]

I believe it was Muddy Waters who said " Blues had a baby and they named it Rock and Roll". If you really listen to a lot of Rock you'll here the Blues progression etc. Its great!

[QuanYin71]

Nice playing mate !

Keep it up !

As for my personal flavor , i dont consider this to be blues ... but then again .. it's matter of taste it seems :)

not bad though !

Check out Lightning Hopkins , Robert Johnson , Muddy Waters , Big Joe Turner , Son House ... god this list is too long :)

Maybe it will inspire you in a way , dont know , anywayz , nice playing !

Cheers mate !

[pmuhob]

if you dont mind me asking what brand reso is that? ive got a liberty lo100 that looks identical to it

[dpashayan]

My apologies for the late reply. It is a Regal RC-2 Resonator I paid about $500 for a few years ago. Nice guitar but I bought a new bisquit, the soft balsa bridge, over the sound hole to lower the action.

[Sierrafox17]

pretty much all the brands have their own version of this fine guitar, you can find them from as cheap as 400 dollar johnson jm-998's to 2500 national style-o delux's with mother of pearl accents, figured maple neck and ivoriod headstock overlay with matching heal cap

[squatch4ever]

man, you're lucky. I want a dobro resonator guitar!

Why is called dobro? I know that dobro is good in croatian, serbian & slovenian.

[phmancus]

well...

it actually isn't a dobro. "Dobro" is a brand name made by Gibson. they're just commonly called this, kinda like tissues are referred to as kleenex.

These are called Resophonic, or Resonator guitars, because of the metal resonator on them that produces it's bluesy tone.

I'm not quite sure of the reason why Gibson named it "dobro" though.

[squatch4ever]

Mmm thanks for the reply :)

Now I know more about this wonderful guitar.

Keep on rock!

[Frowned]

A Czeckoslovakian(sorry) guy named John Dopyera pretty much created the first resonator company (the National one), made a bad buisness deal, left and created a new company named Dobro. They were the first to go from tricone to single cone, I think(since Dopyera was literally forced to re-work his own acoustic system). I guess "dobro" literally means "good" in Slavic.

[KevGobProductions]

the original dobro was made by the Dopyera brothers, who named they're company "Dobro" short of Dopyera Brothers. Gibson bought dobro and the right to use the term dobro pretty recently

[williestratton]

Gibson didn't name it Dobro, it was originally it's own company but was bought by Gibson some time ago. Dobro was started by the Dopyera brothers ({DOpyeraBRO}thers). John dopyera, one of the brothers actually invented all of the types of resonators (tricones, bisquits, and dobros) when the depression hit, the tricone wasn't economical enough so he invented the bisquit (the one in this video), but he lost the patent and started the Dobro company.

[yannber]

it comes from the factory founded by the creator of the system ; the dopyera brothers (dobro co.) after an issue with national about the patent of the resonator cone system.

[tinpanalley67]

@phmancus John (Yan) Dopyera was the creator of first resonator instruments.

DoBro means Dopyera Bros.

[FLSHBK1]

@phmancus The name "DoBro" comes from the DOpyera BROthers (there were 5 of them) who stuck a hubcap on a guitar and made a sound unlike anything else on the planet. In their native language dobro meant "goodness" and one of their sales pitches said, "Dobro means goodness in any language".

Dobros are usually tuned in a Slack Key (for Hawaiian music) or in Open D or G and played with a slide, like a standard Flattop or steel guitar. Gibson bought Dobro rights in the 1990s I think.

[mowshow1sl]

Ive always sounded the best on tin guitars

[mowshow1sl]

I ment i alwayse though that slides sound best on tin guitars

[rea6per6]

Awesome. is that stainless steel. I will get a dobro like that soon. keep it up dude.