One of the few Delta Blues players to play lap style in the 30's was Black Ace, also known as B.K. Turner.
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Asian brands such as Regal, Johnson, Recording King, Republic Guitars, Rogue and Royall also produce or import a wide variety of comparatively inexpensive resonator guitars.
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The resonator guitar is also significant to the world of blues music, particularly the Southern style of country blues that grew out of the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana.
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Also known by the nicknames "Buck," and "Uncle Josh," he is credited with introducing the resonator guitar (commonly known under the trade name of Dobro) into bluegrass music shortly after joining Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955.
But when the early blues musicians began playing outside on Maxwell Street – the place where they could be heard by the greatest number of people – they realized they needed either a louder than standard Resonator guitar (e.g. Arvella Gray) or amplifiers and electrical instruments (e.g. Jim Brewer) in order to be heard.
Acoustic steel guitars used in Hawaiian music are made completely out of wood (with the exception of the tuning hardware), and some resonator guitars are made out of steel or brass but aren't steel guitars due to the manner in which they are played.
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