Thanks Bill. Let me tell you why I asked the question and you might be able to give me more info.

I have an album of the complete Mercury recordings of Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. On the cover is a picture of the group. There is only one man there who isn't holding an instrument. He is wearing a straw hat, a checked flannel shirt and suspenders. He is the only one without some kind of necktie (except for a bandanna). I was trying to figure out who that was and what he played. (The reason I asked about the dobo player was because all the other musicians are holding instruments and none of them have dobros. I was wondering if he was the dobro player---but he looks to be a bit on the tubby side, rather than medium build.

If you know the picture, he is the one standing furthest to the right.

Gene. That must be a heavy instrument! I guess you play it on your lap.

Earl. Let's take it one step further back. Who introduced the guitar to the Hawaiians? (Or did they discover it independently.) I read somewhere that that one-string affair was called a diddly bow and it is from that that Bow Diddly took his name.

Murray