2011 National Reso-Phonic Style 1 Tricone Resophonic Guitar Used

This National Reso-Phonic Style 1 Tricone was made in 2011 and it’s in excellent, lightly played condition. The frets have light wear. It has a nickel-plated brass body, coverplate and tailpiece that are polished to a mirror-like shine. The neck is mahogany and has an ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard. The Tricone-style resonator guitar was invented in 1927 by John Dopyera, who wanted to build a louder guitar in those pre-amplified days that retained the warmth and clarity of a wooden acoustic guitar. His groundbreaking design settled on three resonating cones which projected the guitar’s sound so it could be heard over the sound of dancers and cut through a band or orchestra. National’s early ads proclaimed the Tricone as “The Greatest Musical Sensation of the Age” with a tone that “flowed like a river.”