How a Dobro Is Constructed

Video Transcript

"I'm Reno McCormick and I'm here to tell you about playing the Dobro today. What we have in here is a sound well, usually rung with maple, and the speaker sets inside. And then we have, these are sound hole covers. All they do is add tone. The three holes in the middle, they just let air escape. So, we have air going in, we have, it's just in and out, push, pull. We have different cones that go in there, Quarterman cones, deliver different tone than say your standard Dobro cone. Depends on the music you're playing, you'll change cones, you'll change bridges. By the way your bridge is made of maple and it's just insert into that spider bridge. And there's an adjusting screw in here that we can tighten our tension or loosen our tension, if we get buzzes. We have to loosen it up, or tighten it up, depending. You just experiment until you get it right."