A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
dobro
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dobro.
Editorial note
There will be new digital guitars with funky synth modes every year, but a gibson dobro will still sound like a gibson dobro in twenty years.
Quick take
A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dobro gathered in one view.
(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dobro.
noun
A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
noun
(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator.
Example sentences
There will be new digital guitars with funky synth modes every year, but a gibson dobro will still sound like a gibson dobro in twenty years.
For dobro open G, an octave is four strings up or down.
You mean it's not what you'd expect for dobro, right?
Sorting out scales on an 8-string dobro is a brain melter, even worse for a pedal steel...
The banjo is clearly not an actual banjo being strummed/frailed, but a weird agglomeration of bright toned instruments including both frailed/scruggs banjo and dobro, and maybe harmonica and fiddle creeping in.
So far, I play it on a table like a piano, or like a lap steel guitar or dobro.
I'll add a dobro section now, I just need to find the actual octaves for the notes in the tunings you list.
I play dobro, checking out the open D / open G guitar section.
I am planning on learning pedal steel and also play 8 string dobro.
Somebody feeling kinky I sve je dobro i lepo u ovom svetu.
I mean, I play guitars and pedal steel, banjo, dobro, accordion, etc.
Ma evo sve je dobro:D imas blog/website/facebook?
Quote examples
Downtown Brooklyn ("DoBro" if you're a millennial real estate agent) is already the most well-connected neighborhood in Brooklyn by a huge margin.
I saw Belew give a lecture in 1986 and remember being just mesmerized by his “avant dobro”.
Cool, just added six-string dobro open D and open G (right now calling it "standard" because that's most common in bluegrass and I seem to have a bug that every instrument right now needs a tuning called "standard" but can't find it).
Proper noun examples
Or like how resonator guitars (Dobro, National) were invented to be louder but now people like the tone.
Resonator guitars (Dobro, National Guitar, etc.) were made in an attempt to get more volume, but they ended up having a unique sound.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use dobro in a sentence?
There will be new digital guitars with funky synth modes every year, but a gibson dobro will still sound like a gibson dobro in twenty years.
What does dobro mean?
A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
What part of speech is dobro?
dobro is commonly used as noun.