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2. Del Vecchio (guitar maker) - Wikipedia

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   In the 1930s, Del Vecchio began producing resonator guitars, [1] resulting in their most famous model: the Dinâmico, (their trade term for resophonic instruments). Current range of products manufactured by Del Vecchio includes classical and resonator guitars, banjos, mandolins, cavaquinho, and viola caipiras. [2]

3. Banjo (wood lathe) - Wikipedia

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   The resemblance in shape to a banjo may be seen in the fixture shown at bottom center under the operator's hand. In the craft of woodturning, a banjo is a common term for a fixture on the wood lathe, [1] mounted on the lathe's bed, for holding the toolrest. It allows for adjustment of the toolrest in various positions, by the lathe operator ...

4. Lyon & Healy - Wikipedia

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   Lyon & Healy also made various percussion instruments. Later, Lyon & Healy began manufacturing brass instruments, possibly as early as the 1890s. Lyon & Healy also repaired instruments, and offered engraving services. Complicating matters still further, Lyon & Healy engraved instruments that it retailed but did not actually manufacture.

5. Cigar box guitar - Wikipedia

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   The plans, retitled "How to Build an Uncle Enos Banjo", were included in the 1890 edition of Beard's American Boy's Handy Book as supplementary material at the back of the book. [5] These plans omitted the story but still showed a step-by-step description of a playable five-string fretless banjo made from a cigar box.

6. National String Instrument Corporation - Wikipedia

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   The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National also produced resonator ukuleles and resonator mandolins. The company merged with Dobro to form the "National Dobro Company", then becoming a brand of Valco until it closed in 1968.

7. Resonating device - Wikipedia

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   A resonating device is a structure used by an animal that improves the quality of its vocalizations through amplifying the sound produced via acoustic resonance.The benefit of such an adaptation is that the call's volume increases while lessening the necessary energy expenditure otherwise required to make such a sound.

8. Banjo - Wikipedia

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   The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents.

9. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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   This is a Jazz-Age banjo, the American closed-back type that Leonardi referred to. The closed back is a resonator, to project more sound outward. In his 1921 book Méthode for the Banjoline or Mandoline-Banjo, Salvador Leonardi said that naming conventions between the United States and France had applied similar names to different instruments ...