Dobro

Dobro® is a trade name used mainly for guitars. The name was originally used by the Dopyera brothers and is now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation.

Trivia

• Often used in a clichéd manner, a dobro will be heard as soon as the scene in a movie or television show switches to a Southern American landscape, whether wilderness or a run-down town (usually in the summer). When this happens, it's playing a note that lazily slides upward a fourth, generally followed by a few plucked chords descending to the original note.