The Bottleneck Guitarists? thread is getting too long, and it is drifting away from its original subject, so I thought I would start a new thread.

I recently got the video "Legends of Country Blues Guitar" by Stefan Grossman. Volume 2 has an elderly Bukka White playing an instrument that looks like it is metal-bodied with a wooden head, and it looks like it has a resonator cone (or three). It has f-holes closer towards the shoulders than is usual. If anyone has seen the video, can you identify the instrument. There were three instruments mentioned in the thread--the dobro, duolian, and National Resophonic tri-cone. I was wondering if it was one of those.

In older pictures of him, he usually has a wooden guitar with f-holes, no resonator, and a violin-family type tailpiece, so there is a chance the instrument is a relatively new one.

BTW. He does two versions of Po' Boy with it. One with a metal cylinder on his pinkie and another with the instrument on his lap using a rod shaped piece of metal (Hawaiian style.) The playing sounds good. Unfortunately the instrument (or the recording engineer) drowns out his voice.

Murray