Dobro guitar

Japanese: Dobro guitar(英語表記)Dobroguitar
Dobro guitar

...The representative example is the steel guitar in Hawaiian music, and in the mainland of the United States, steel guitars are used in country music. In addition, in old-style country music such as bluegrass, an acoustic guitar with a resonator called a Dobro guitar is hung horizontally from the neck and played with a slide technique. In contrast, in black blues in the southern United States, the guitar is held at an angle as usual, and a bottle neck or iron tube is placed on the ring finger of the left hand and applied to the strings, making it a bottleneck technique. This technique was adopted into rock music in the late 1960s and has become one of the important techniques for playing the electric guitar. ...

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Japanese:

…代表的なものにハワイアン・ミュージックのスチール・ギターがあり,アメリカ本土ではカントリー・ミュージックにスチール・ギターが使われる。このほか,ブルーグラスなど古い型のカントリー・ミュージックではドブロ・ギターDobro guitarと呼ばれる共鳴装置付きのアコースティック・ギターを首から水平につるし,スライド奏法で演奏する。これに対し,アメリカ南部の黒人のブルースでは,ギターは普通と同じく斜めに支え,左手の薬指などに瓶の首の部分もしくは鉄製の管をはめてそれを弦に当てるボトルネックbottle‐neck奏法が行われ,この奏法は1960年代末からロックに取り入れられて,エレキ・ギター(エレクトリック・ギター)の重要な奏法の一つとなっている。…

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