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dobro orig. U.S.|ˈdɒbrəʊ, dəʊ-|
[f. the name of its Czech-American inventors, the Do(pěra Bro(thers; the coincidence with Czech dobro (the) good, a good thing, may also help to explain the choice of this form.]
The name (proprietary in the U.S.) for a type of acoustic guitar with steel resonating discs fitted inside the body under the bridge, popular for playing country and western music.
1952Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 26 Feb. 921/1 Valco Manufacturing Company, Chicago... Filed July 14, 1947. Dobro, for string musical instruments... Claims use since November 1929. 1969Rolling Stone 28 June 17/1 The traditional country sound is characterized by guitar, fiddle and banjo, augmented by harmonica, zither, dobro or bass. 1970J. Lennon in J. Wenner Lennon Remembers 182, I remember the first guitar I ever saw. It belonged to a guy in a cowboy suit in a province of Liverpool, with stars, and a cowboy hat and a big dobro. 1972Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Oct. 269/1 Edgar E. Dopera... Original Musical Instrument Company, Inc., Long Beach, Calif. Filed June 9, 1971. Dobro. For guitars and banjos. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 5 June 20/5 These country people have rough but honest faces, look to have the moral fiber of birch, love strangers, play fiddles and dobros, [etc.]. 1984Washington Post 24 Dec. B7/6 The ornate surface of Ben Eldridge's banjo and the brittle precision of John Duffey's mandolin were answered by the warm and elastic dobro of Mike Auldridge. |