Editing Steel guitar (section)

====Resonator guitars====
In 1927, the Dopyera brothers patented the [[resonator guitar]], a non-electric device resembling a large inverted loudspeaker cone attached under the bridge of a guitar to make it louder.<ref name="carlindobro">{{cite book |last1=Carlin |first1=Richard |title=Country music : a biographical dictionary |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=9780415938020 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZjrAgAAQBAJ&dq=dobro+in+hawaiian+music&pg=PA109 |access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref> The name "Dobro", a portmanteau of DOpyera and BROthers, became a generic term for this type of guitar, popularized by Pete Kirby ("[[Bashful Brother Oswald]]") on [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville's]] [[Grand Ole Opry]] for 30 years with [[Roy Acuff|Roy Acuff's]] band. He played the instrument while standing with the guitar facing upward held horizontally by a shoulder strap. Oswald's Dobro attracted interest and fascination; he said, "People couldn't understand how I played it and what it was, and they'd always want to come around and look at it."<ref name="bradspos">{{cite web |title=Brad's Page of Steel |url=https://people.well.com/user/wellvis/oswald.html |website=people.well.com |access-date=January 3, 2021}}</ref> [[Josh Graves]] (Uncle Josh) further popularized the resonator steel guitar into [[Bluegrass music|Bluegrass]] music with [[Flatt and Scruggs]] to the extent that this type of lap steel became an established and familiar fixture in this genre.<ref name="carlindobro"/> The dobro fell out of favor in mainstream country music until a bluegrass revival in the 1970s brought it back with younger virtuoso players like [[Jerry Douglas]] whose Dobro skills became widely known and emulated.<ref name="carlindobro">{{cite book |last1=Carlin |first1=Richard |title=Country music : a biographical dictionary |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=9780415938020 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZjrAgAAQBAJ&dq=dobro+in+hawaiian+music&pg=PA109 |access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>