Dorado Dor-Bro Resonator Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1971-1974
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was made in Japan and distributed by Gretsch in Cincinnati, Ohio around 1971-1974. It is a six course (6x1) resonator Spanish style guitar. In the 1970s, Gretsch began importing the Dorado line of inexpensive guitars. This resonator style guitar is listed as the “Dor-Bro” in a Gretsch catalog from 1973.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was use by Bill Mabe, founder member of the Branson, Missouri based group, the Baldknobbers. The Baldknobbers, named after an 1800s vigilante group in the Ozarks, began in 1959, when four brothers, Bill, Jim, Lyle and Bob Mabe, began entertaining visitors on the Taneycomo lakefront. The group was comprised of a washtub bass, banjo, Dobro guitar, washboard and a mule’s jawbone to provide rhythm. Their down-home, family style performances were a hit and became known as “The Baldknobbers Jamboree,” Branson’s first county music-and-comedy show.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ed Snowden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0002.01
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0002.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dobro guitar
label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 15 in x 5 in; 101.6 cm x 38.1 cm x 12.7 cm