Dobro

[doh-broh]

Trademark.

1. a brand of acoustic guitar commonly used in country music, usually played on the lap and having a raised bridge and a metal resonator cone that produces a tremulous, moaning sound.

noun

plural

Dobros 

1. (lowercase),  any guitar of this type.

Dobro

/ ˈdəʊbrəʊ /

noun

1. an acoustic guitar having a metal resonator built into the body

Example Sentences

For 11 hours, a guitar and a bass and a mandolin and a sax and a dobro and an accordion and some drums do not stop, and neither does the dancing nor the singing nor the drinking nor the joking.

From Los Angeles Times

“We started talking ‘Scarecrow,’ and as pure coincidence, he said, ‘Oh, I just learned the banjo and the dobro,’” Murdy says.

From Los Angeles Times

Weaving around the many period-rich diegetic songs, he took a 1932 Dobro resonator guitar — the same one that Caton’s character, Sammy, plays in the film — and channeled his father’s blues-loving DNA.

From Los Angeles Times

In the late 1980s, Mr. McReynolds toured and recorded with the Masters, a bluegrass supergroup that included the fiddler Kenny Baker, the dobro player Josh Graves and the banjo player and guitarist Eddie Adcock.

From New York Times

His scuffed-up hands, the way he smoked his cigarettes, the gleaming silver of his dobro guitar, his habit of showing up on a Harley every five years with a new girl on the back.

From Los Angeles Times