![]() This Duolian was made by National, as evidenced by the beautiful logo on the headstock. ![]() ![]() The agreement between the two men was short-lived: the first resonator guitar left their workshop in 1927, and in 1928 John Dopeyra founded the firm Dobro (a contraction of Dopeyra Brothers) with his brothers, but National continued to exist. He set up the National brand with his partner George Beauchamp, a lap steel player who would play a colossal role in the electrification of the 1930s via Rickenbacker. With this built-in speaker, the guitar gained power and produced a sharper, more aggressive sound. Before the invention of amplification, which won the race for volume once and for all, a Californian luthier by the name of John Dopeyra had the ingenious idea of installing a resonator in the body of the guitar. anything and everything to avoid being supplanted by the banjo, which could at least produce significant volume. In the 1920s, the guitar was looking for a way to gain volume and make itself heard in the big bands of the time: steel strings, bigger bodies.
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