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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

and Glen Campbell's 1966 Mosrite Dobro D-100 Californian acoustic-electric resonator guitar used at recording sessions with the famed "Wrecking Crew" of Los Angeles studio musicians that was hand ...