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)
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
Son House used National resonator guitars