Dobro        

           Dobro May Be A Registered Trademark Currently Closely-Held By Gibson Stringed Instrument Corporation And Used For A Selected Style Of Resonator Stringed Instrument.

          The Name Incorporates A Long And Concerned History, Complex There with Of The Resonator Stringed Instrument. Originally Coined By The Dopy era Brothers Once They Fashioned The Dobro Producing Company, In Time It Came, In Common Language, To Mean Any Resonator Stringed Instrument, Or Specifically One With One Inverted Resonator. This specific Style Was Introduced By The Dopy eras' New Company, In Competition To The Already Proprietary Tricone And Biscuit Styles Owned And Made By The National String Instrument Corporation.

            The Dobro Whole Later Conjointly Appeared On Alternative Instruments, Notably Electrical Lap-Steel Guitars And Solid-Body Electrical Guitars And On Alternative Resonator Instruments Like Expedition Resonator Mandolins.

         When Gibson Noninheritable The Trademark In 1994, The Corporate Proclaimed That It'd Defend Its Right To Dobro's Exclusive Use.