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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.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

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.

noun

A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.

noun

(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

1

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.

2

For dobro open G, an octave is four strings up or down.

3

You mean it's not what you'd expect for dobro, right?

4

Sorting out scales on an 8-string dobro is a brain melter, even worse for a pedal steel...

5

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.

6

So far, I play it on a table like a piano, or like a lap steel guitar or dobro.

7

I'll add a dobro section now, I just need to find the actual octaves for the notes in the tunings you list.

8

I play dobro, checking out the open D / open G guitar section.

9

I am planning on learning pedal steel and also play 8 string dobro.

10

Somebody feeling kinky I sve je dobro i lepo u ovom svetu.

11

I mean, I play guitars and pedal steel, banjo, dobro, accordion, etc.

12

Ma evo sve je dobro:D imas blog/website/facebook?

Quote examples

1

Downtown Brooklyn ("DoBro" if you're a millennial real estate agent) is already the most well-connected neighborhood in Brooklyn by a huge margin.

2

I saw Belew give a lecture in 1986 and remember being just mesmerized by his “avant dobro”.

3

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

1

Or like how resonator guitars (Dobro, National) were invented to be louder but now people like the tone.

2

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.