![]() A variety of other brands produce variations on these three designs. There are three basic designs: the tricone, with three metal cones, designed by the company National the single-cone “biscuit” design of other National instruments and the single inverted-cone design (also called a spider bridge) of Dobro. ![]() Resonator guitars come in two styles: Square-necked guitars played in lap steel guitar style, and Round-necked guitars played in conventional steel guitar style. Some guitar players feel the resonator is not versatile, best for the blues/bluegrass/country music realm, but if you can get one with a pickup, you will have more versatility. However, electric amplification solved this. Resonators were originally built to be louder than regular acoustics, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance bands. It creates sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to at least one, or more, spun metal cones (resonators), as opposed to into the guitar’s sounding board (top). A resonator guitar (resophonic, or resonator bass) is an acoustic guitar with a distinctive tone.
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