Thayer embarked on a collaborative effort with guitarist Joey Leone and Eastwood Guitars to create a resonator, electric guitar and banjo mash-up. Eastwood gave him some parts and a free creative ...

According to owner Matt Eich, the resonator was invented in the 1930s to be loud, before electric guitars were used. Electric guitars were invented in 1931. Matt Eich assembles a Mule Resophonic ...

“The origins of the [electric] guitar were in country ... At first, he co-designed in the late 1920s a “resonator”, an acoustic guitar that naturally amplified sound via one or more metal ...

As Brett told us in 2020, Barth was something of an early electric guitar Zelig. His uncle was John Dopyera, inventor of the ...

Tim Scheerhorn, the genius behind the coveted Scheerhorn Resonator Guitar and recent inductee into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, led me into his ascetic, sub level workshop and offered ...

Focussing on the Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time devices ... Currently, a lover of all things high-gain in the guitar stakes and never one to resist churning out sub-standard funky ...

First designed by John Dopyera and George Beauchamp in the late 1920s, National resonator guitars were a solution to two problems plaguing guitarists. First, volume: prior to the invention of electric ...

Gibson's electric guitar wasn't the first to market ... The newest, loudest design of the era was the resonator guitar. Usually made of metal, it had a series of aluminum resonators built into ...