Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for guitars and banjos, especially a guitar that is laid flat on its back and played chiefly with a slide.
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- proper noun trademark A type of
acoustic guitar with a metalresonator set into its body.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"All Day Long" and "Let Me Down Easy" are melodic country-soul, the latter reminiscent of Gregg Allman's better solo work, and "Bad Day of Fishin '" recalls the Dobro-laced country-blues of Merle Haggard's Jimmie Rodgers tribute.
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It was originally made by the Dopyera Brothers, who later on made the Dobro, which is a wood-bodied instrument with a metal cone for -- where the sound comes from.
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It was originally made by the Dopyera Brothers, who later on made the Dobro, which is a wood-bodied instrument with a metal cone for -- where the sound comes from.
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It was originally made by the Dopyera Brothers, who later on made the Dobro, which is a wood-bodied instrument with a metal cone for -- where the sound comes from.
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And the Africans who gave folks the banjos to play along with the fiddles, and the Polynesian Hawaiians who taught the Africans to play their guitars with a slide, after Portuguese sailors left guitars behind in the Sandwich Islands, and then the Africans taught more Anglos to play something called the Dobro using a slide, the Dobro having been invented by a couple of brothers from Slovakia.
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"Dobro" means "good", and it may be the only word you need to know when you meet these wonderful people.
David Henry Sterry: An American in South Africa -- Or, Why Soccer Really Matters 2010
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( "Dobro" is the trademarked name of one brand of resonator guitar marketed by Gibson, but the word is used as commonly and generically in everyday speech as "Kleenex.")
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A Dobro is a bluegrass instrument, inlaid in the sound box with a metal resonator and played flat with a bar like a steel guitar, and you don’t see many of them outside the southern mountains.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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Other instrumentalist award winners were Rob Ickes with his twelfth award for Dobro Player of the Year, and The Grascals 'Kristin Scott Benson for her third consecutive honor for Banjo Player of the Year.
International Bluegrass Association Hands Out Annual Awards 2010
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"I look across the stage and there's Jerry Douglas playing Dobro on a song we wrote," Mr. Goodwin said recently at a doughnut shop in Hell's Kitchen.
Harmonious Times for Good Old War Jim Fusilli 2011
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