Editing Slide guitar (section)

== Resonator guitars ==
The [[National String Instrument Corporation]] produced the first metal-body [[resonator guitar]]s in the late 1920s (''see image at beginning of article'').{{sfn|Gruhn|Carver|2010|p=526}} Popular with early slide players, these featured a large aluminum cone, resembling an inverted loudspeaker, attached under the instrument's [[Bridge (instrument)|bridge]] to increase its volume.<ref name="resonator-cool">{{cite web|last1=Drozdowski|first1=Ted|title=How Resonator Guitars Work and Sound So Cool|url=http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/how-resonator-guitars-work-1218-2012.aspx|website=[[gibson.com]]|access-date=October 5, 2017|date=December 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119013750/http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/how-resonator-guitars-work-1218-2012.aspx|archive-date=November 19, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was patented in the late 1920s by the Dopyera brothers and became widely used on many types of guitars, and was adapted to the [[mandolin]] and [[ukulele]].

Tampa Red played a gold-plated National Tricone style 4, and was one of the first black musicians to record with it.{{sfn|Batey|2003|p=75}} Delta blues pioneer, Son House, played this type of guitar on many songs including the classic, "[[Death Letter]]".<ref name="resonator-cool" /> A resonator guitar with a metal body was played by [[Bukka White]] ("[[Parchman Farm Blues]]" and "[[Fixin' to Die Blues]]"{{efn|The song "Fixin' to Die Blues", recorded by Bukka White in 1940 in Chicago, was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 2012<ref name="white-fame">{{cite web|title=2012 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees|url=https://www.grammy.com/recording-academy/press-release/nov-21-2011-500-am|website=[[grammy.com]]|date=21 November 2011|access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref>}}).