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National String Instrument Corporation

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Dobro

...Dopyeras' new company, in competition to the already patented tricone and biscuit designs owned and produced by the National String Instrument Corporation. The Dobro brand later also...

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Rickenbacker

...the tri-cone guitars in their Los Angeles shop, calling the new guitars "Nationals". On January 26, 1928, the National String Instrument Corporation was certified and, with its new...

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Mandolin

...the louder banjo creates the mandolin-banjo, and resonators have been used, most notably by Dobro and the National String Instrument Corporation. Some musicians use electric mandolins...

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Duco

...in Romania the term was in use with the same meaning until beginning of 2000. Duco is the finish applied to National String Instrument Corporation brand of resonator guitars ca. 1930

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Adolph Rickenbacker

...Rickenbacker. Starting in the late 1920s, his Rickenbacker Manufacturing Company made metal bodies for the National String Instrument Corporation. Through this connection, he met George...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Resonator guitar

...four resonator cones, and cones composed of several different metals. In 1927, Dopyera and Beauchamp formed the National String Instrument Corporation to manufacture resonator guitars...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

John Dopyera

...or Dobro). Joined by his brothers Rudy and Emil, as well as a group of willing investors, Dopyera founded the National String Instrument Corporation. The resonator guitar initially sold...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Frying pan (guitar)

Beauchamp had been involved in the development of the Dobro resonator guitar, and was a co-founder of National String Instrument Corporation. Through these businesses, he was...

Wikipedia | 4 months ago

George Beauchamp

...Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 - March 30, 1941) was an inventor of musical instruments and a co-founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars.

Wikipedia | 4 months ago

Resonator mandolin

...to be heard alongside brass and reed instruments. In 1927, Dopyera and George D. Beauchamp formed the National String Instrument Corporation to manufacture resonator guitars under...

Wikipedia | 5 months ago

National String Instrument Corporation

The National String Instrument Corporation was the company formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars. 1928 National Style O plectrum guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection The...

Wikipedia | 10 months ago

National Reso-Phonic Guitars

...designs, and produced reproductions under the National brand name and trade mark, as originally used by the National String Instrument Corporation for the very first resonator...