{"id":51028,"date":"2025-12-02T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=51028"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:07:05","slug":"dobro-duolian-resonator-1995","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/product\/dobro-duolian-resonator-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobro Duolian Resonator 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built in 1995, this Dobro Original Duolian comes from the mid-1990s OMI period, when Original Musical Instrument Company was still building Dobro-branded resonators in Huntington Beach, after Gibson acquired the company and brand in 1993. Dobro itself traces back to the Dopyera brothers\u2019 late-1920s resonator designs, best known for the spider bridge and outward-facing cone that became a cornerstone of bluegrass and country slide.<\/p>\n<p>The Duolian model is a deliberate sidestep from that classic spider setup. The Model 90 Duolian was marketed as a \u201cBottleneck Special\u201d and built around a National-style single cone with a biscuit bridge, paired with the moon-and-stars coverplate and etched \u201cHawaiian\u201d scenes on the plated bell brass body. That construction gives a quick, direct attack and a drier, more percussive midrange, which suits bottleneck blues, ragtime runs, and rootsy chord work.<\/p>\n<p>By the mid-1990s, OMI was one of the last US builders still making these traditional metal-body resonators in small numbers, and the Huntington Beach shop continued using many long-standing production techniques from the earlier Dobro tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Dobro\u2019s voice is inseparable from players like Josh Graves, Mike Auldridge, and Jerry Douglas, who pushed resonator guitar from early country into modern bluegrass and beyond. This metal-body Duolian format also shows up in the wider guitar world; a circa-1995 Dobro Duolian was included in Mark Knopfler\u2019s recently auctioned collection.<\/p>\n<p>This example has a slim neck, very minor playwear, and tiny dings on the neck. Frets are in great condition. Includes original case with logo. Weight is 4000g.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Model family: Model 90 \u201cDuolian\u201d \/ \u201cBottleneck Special\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Body: bell brass body, plated<\/li>\n<li>Body artwork: etched \u201cHawaiian scene\u201d style engraving<\/li>\n<li>Soundholes: Dobro-style f-holes (rolled openings)<\/li>\n<li>Resonator: single cone, National-style, approx 9.5 inch<\/li>\n<li>Bridge: biscuit bridge assembly<\/li>\n<li>Coverplate: moon and stars pattern with handrest<\/li>\n<li>Neck: maple or similar hardwood roundneck, sunburst finish, slim feel<\/li>\n<li>Neck reinforcement: adjustable steel reinforcing rod<\/li>\n<li>Fingerboard: rosewood, flat, dot inlays<\/li>\n<li>Frets: 19<\/li>\n<li>Scale length: 24 1\/2 in<\/li>\n<li>Neck joins body at: 14th fret<\/li>\n<li>Overall length: 38 3\/4 in<\/li>\n<li>Body width: 14 1\/8 in<\/li>\n<li>Body depth: 4 1\/2 in<\/li>\n<li>Tuners: 3-a-side, commonly Grover mini Rotomatic style<\/li>\n<li>Tailpiece: trapeze style<\/li>\n<li>Nut: bone<\/li>\n<li>Case: original hard-shell case with logo<\/li>\n<li>Weight: 4000g<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built in 1995, this Dobro Original Duolian comes from the mid-1990s OMI period, when Original Musical Instrument Company was still building Dobro-branded resonators in Huntington Beach, after Gibson acquired the company and brand in 1993. Dobro itself traces back to the Dopyera brothers\u2019 late-1920s resonator designs, best known for the spider bridge and outward-facing cone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51029,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[445],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51028","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-resonators","7":"brand-dobro","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/51028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstockguitars.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}