Resonator guitar
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A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones, instead of to the guitar's soundin
Single cone resonator with metal body
Early resonator guitar
First National resophonic guitar (c. 1926–7)
Dobro-style "spider" resonator on a Hohner guitar (cover removed)
Slide guitar
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Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissan
Resonator guitar
…square necked Dobro-style instruments played as a steel guitar while blues players favored round-necked National-style guitars, often played with a bottleneck. The resonator guitar is most often played as a lap steel guitar, and the more common square-necked version is limited to this playing position. Square…
A musician playing slide guitar style. The slide is on his left ring finger. He is playing a National-type metal-body resonator guitar using fingerpicks on his right hand.
Ry Cooder using a glass slide in 2009
Wooden resonator guitar played with a steel, angled to form a chord unavailable from straight open tuning.
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