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Article: Dobro's power still resonates today.(Entertainment)(`Vocal' instrument comes alive in hands of master Jerry Douglas)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2003
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Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard
The sound of the Dobro (`good" in Slovak) has been described as "vocal," "lyrical," "percussive," "round" and "bell-like."
"It's all of those things," said undisputed Dobro master Jerry Douglas, speaking by phone from Telluride, Colo. "It has so many nuances.
`It can be a percussive instrument. It can be really vocal. It can be really like the human voice."
A wood-bodied, metal-plated instrument with an aluminum cone for amplification, the Dobro, or resonator guitar, is played laid flat, sometimes across the lap.
Invented by two Slovakian brothers in Chicago in 1927, the instrument was ...