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Location: SE Michigan | I think I'd like to start messing around with some slide and blues stuff. What's a good inexpensive dobro or resonator? I'd like to keep it say between $300-600. I play mostly unamplified but I do plug in sometimes. I am not familure with the brands and models for this type of guitar.
Also, would I be better off with a square neck or round neck? You can only play slide on a square neck right? Is the square neck superior for slide? Or is it better to be able to do conventional fretting on a round neck?
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Location: NJ | I'd gotten a fairly good inexpensive Chinese "Dobro" from Al at a really good price . . .
. . . don't know if he has any left.
(This one was strictly acoustic, though.) |
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Location: NJ | I think my supplier is waiting for another container of those dobros. for the money they were not bad at all |
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Location: south east Michigan | Bulletin Board For One
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I just ordered a resonator ukulele. I figured two wrongs might make a right. Dave |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You want a round neck, the square neck sits in your lap and you play it like a steel, BIG difference between that and a slide.
You can get a National for 1200-1500 a style O or a Delphi. There are a bunch of others. The best for playing slide will have a flat fretboard. |
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Location: NJ | That should be cool!!
cwk2's National Uke seems to work QUITE nicely,
so I'd suspect you'll be pretty pleased with the outcome.
Who's building it?? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | A recent Guitar Player reviewed two models of a new Korean resonator guitar and gave it high marks as it had a resonator assembly similar to some of the best. I think it was a Regal, they sell for around $300, Check out some of the recent mags, I gave my copy to my grandson or I would look it up.
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Location: NJ | A buddy of mine had a Regal reso as well.
Not bad for the $, as I recall . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | At the National guitar workshop classes this summer there was this little kid with a Regel style O. It seemed just fine, quite loud and the right tone. Of course this kid kept playing the same Son House lick overandoverandover...... |
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Location: Scotland | Of the cheaper Resos Johnson sound about the best to me. As 85%+ of a resonator guitars sound is the cone, you can pretty much buy any cheap imported guitar and significantly improve it by spending $60 on a Quarterman or National cone. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I would agree, that and a good set up job. Elixers work well too because of less finger squeek and less slide noise. |
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What's a good inexpensive dobro or resonator?
