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Thread #65486   Message #3457297
Posted By: Harmonium Hero
26-Dec-12 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Lap-slide - Celtic?
Subject: RE: Lap-slide - Celtic?
In the interests of accuracy, what Jerry Douglas is playing in the clip above is not a Dobro, as some of the comments on Youtube see to assume. it's a Weissenborn. This form of Hawaiian/lap steel guitar predates Nationals and Dobros. Its inventor, Herman Weissenborn, died in 1937. You can get modern copies of these instruments. Luvvem!
JK