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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 1 Oct 2015 6:00 am    
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http://abc11.com/entertainment/wide-open-bluegrass-whats-a-dobro/1008371/
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Doug Beaumier


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Northampton, MA
Post  Posted 1 Oct 2015 7:38 am    
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Quote:
"It has a little of the punch of a banjo, but not quite."


hmm... not quite a banjo. Winking
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Mark Eaton


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Post  Posted 1 Oct 2015 8:13 am    
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What the heck?

Was that Jerry Garcia in the street jam on guitar at 1:30 in the video risen from the dead on Wagon Wheel? Whoa!
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Jana Lockaby

 

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Kaufman, TX
Post  Posted 1 Oct 2015 8:56 am    
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A little twang? So that's what puts the "twang" in it. I always wondered. lol
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Bob Stone


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Gainesville, FL, USA
Post  Posted 2 Oct 2015 11:23 am    
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This should clarify things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRT4HoCA0l8 Rolling Eyes
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 2 Oct 2015 11:36 am    
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It's all very simple actually .... a Dobro is a human-powered, portable acoustic speaker cabinet invented in America by two Czechoslovakian Brothers for the purpose of playing Hawaiian music more loudly.
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Jon Light


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Post  Posted 2 Oct 2015 11:38 am    
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You are all wrong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/nyregion/photographs-of-a-gentrifying-downtown-brooklyn.html?_r=0

(For the record, I give anyone shit on local boards if they try to use this term for the neighborhood.)
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 2 Oct 2015 11:57 am    
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Perhaps you should stop at Brodo on the way to DoBro, Jon?

http://www.brodobroth.co
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Jack Aldrich

 

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Post  Posted 3 Oct 2015 4:51 pm    
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Andy - I believe that the Dopyera's were Slovaks.
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