| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] RE: Trying to date an old dobro | | Date: | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 14:14:12 (-0400) | | From: | Randolph E. Getz <bgdobro @...net>
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John Gallagher wrote " I'll never discount the genius of the
Dopyeras" now John don't be too generous with your comments, while
there is no question that the brothers on the inventor side were in
fact rather ingenious individuals they had some strange quirks about
them. Back in the 30's when they hooked up with Regal the traditional
early thin bodied California built dobro that started it all
disappeared, and a thicker bodied box appeared on the scene. It was
these thicker bodied boxes that went on to become some of the best
sounding dobros that ever came out of California. Joshes' "Julie" was
one as was Oswalds "Herman". The two Model 37's that Mike A played
almost his entire ride with the Scene were the deeper bodied boxes
although built by Regal. Yet when the Dopyeras regained the right to
the Dobro name after the Mosrite era what did they do but go right
back to the thin bodied typical early California built box. As former
employees of OMI have stated one of the brothers favorite comments
was why change we did it that way when we started. So as you can see
from this example as ingenious as they were they didn't see when
something was better and continued to do it the old way. The same can
be said about the 14 fret boxes that they came out with just prior to
the sale to Mosrite, these boxes were inferior to 12 fret boxes in
many ways but they were hung up on that 14 fret metal box from the
30's and even patterned the early 60's wood boxes after it.
Randy
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