The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National also produced resonator ukuleles and reso
1930 National Triolian resonator mandolin
A resonator guitar.
Son House used National resonator guitars
George Beauchamp
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George Delmetia Beauchamp was an American inventor of musical instruments. He is known for designing the first electrically amplified guitar to be marketed commercially, using transducer pickups, whic
National String Instrument Corporation
…company merged with Dobro to form the "National Dobro Company", then becoming a brand of Valco until it closed in 1968. The first company was formed by George Beauchamp, a vaudeville steel guitar player and house painter, and inventor John Dopyera, a violinist and luthier. Dopyera had seen an amplified Stroh stick…
The "Frying Pan", 1932