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HowlettPeter_Resolele.pngA resonator ukulele or "resophonic ukulele" is a ukulele whose sound is produced by one or more spun aluminum cones (resonators) instead of the wooden soundboard (ukulele top/face). These instruments are sometimes referred to as "Dobro ukuleles," however the term "Dobro" is currently trademarked by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

The resonator ukulele is a descendant of the resonator guitar. The resonator guitar was originally designed to be louder than conventional acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance orchestras. A resonator ukulele is generally somewhat louder than a standard wooden ukulele, and has a different tone quality and distinctive appearance.

Though resonator guitars are often played flat in the lap steel guitar style, resonator ukuleles are almost exclusively played in the conventional manner.

A Peter Howlett Resonator ukulele

Resonator Ukulele Builders and Manufactures

 

Current manufacturers

Historical manufacturers

  • Dobro Manufacturing Company (USA)
  • Regal Musical Instrument Company (USA)
  • Del Vecchio (Brazil)
  • Johnson/Ashbury (China)

Beltona
Old Parua Bay Road, R.D.5
Whangarei, New Zealand

Northern Hemisphere contact: www.northpacificproductions.com

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Beltona began as a partnership between Steve Evans and Bill Johnson in the UK in 1990. A luthier and engineer respectively and sharing an interest in resonator instruments, they set out to produce a couple of instruments for themselves replicating the best features of the originals but also making adjustments and improvements where they were needed.

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Donmo Resonator Guitars
Don Morrison
Adelaide, South Australia
Phone: (08) 8362 1317 International Phone: 61 8 8362 1317

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Fine Resophonic
Mike Lewis / Pierre Avocat
3 voie Coypel
94400 Vitry sur Seine
France
Phone & Fax : 33 (1) 46 77 86 17

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Hoosier Maid Ukulele Works
Luthier: Geoff Davis
1337 Hannibal Street
Noblesville, IN 46060
Phone: 317 313 4763

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Pete Howlett
South Wales, United Kingdom
UK Phone: 07870 677754

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HowlettPeter_Resolele.png A prophetic photograph of me age 4 used to form the background, Bowman style, to my labels. Clutching my plastic Woolworth's ukulele, standing in the tartan kilt of my mother's Scottish clan, in front of the wall my dad built, is a constant reminder that I really was born to do this job!

My whole philosophy is one of care in the selection of materials and attention to detail. I learned these qualities from my toolmaker father whose exacting eye taught me to take notice of the small things

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I remember when our neighbours painted their houses; it took a couple of days with a gallon can of Dulux. It always needed re-doing a couple of years later. Dad took a week applying 3 coats of Mangers lead based oil paint over 2 coats of red lead primer. He only did it once. It lasted years.

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Mya-Moe Ukuleles
Gordon Mayer
18 Forbes Road
White Salmon, WA 98672
Phone: 541-490-8522

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( from listing's site ) - Gordon & Char Mayer are the luthiers who build all Mya-Moe ukuleles. They have combined expertise in design, engineering, music, and lutherie. They both have masters degrees in engineering. Gordon has been building guitars for 7 years. Char is a professional musician. Before building guitars, Gordon was a wood-turning artist, giving him extended knowledge of different woods & their properties. Char’s artistic bent was expressed in hand-pieced Roman shades. Together, they hand-craft each instrument, a culmination of their combined educations & experiences in engineering, art & music.

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National Reso-Phonic Guitars, Inc.
871 Via Esteban #C
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Tel: (805) 546-8442
Fax: (805) 546-8430

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(from their site) - These instruments were first created in the era of the Hawaiian and Jazz Bands, prior to electrical amplification. All sorts of musicians, Hawaiian, jazz and blues, wanted louder guitars: to be able to be heard alongside horns; to project out into music halls or smokey night clubs; or, to be the loudest guitar on the street corner. In response to this need, the mechanically amplified resonator guitar was created.

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Pohaku Ukuleles
by Peter Hurney
937 Grayson Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Tel: 510-845-5055

RepublicGuitars
American Folklore Inc. 3526 Lakeview Pkwy. Ste. B # 221 Rowlett, Texas 75088
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