http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/the-dobro/ A blog mostly about language Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/the-dobro/#comment-43778 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:56:45 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=14239#comment-43778 I have a Johnson AXL-998-2, which is wonderful, but the tailpiece is presently broken, and also my poor Johnson is in desperate need of polishing!

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/the-dobro/#comment-43642 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:44:52 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=14239#comment-43642 I have a Liberty brand “Shooting Stars” resonator guitar … when people call it a “Dobro” then I tell them no, that Dobro is a particular brand of resonator guitar, but maybe at some point I’ll give up on that and just accept that it’s gotten genericized.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/the-dobro/#comment-43635 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:42:20 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=14239#comment-43635 Now listening to the wonderful 1972 album Dobro / Blues & Bluegrass. Almost surely where I heard the word dobro used for the first time.

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