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What were they thinking about?
1970s Dobro Banjo
© Frank Ford, 2001; Photos by FF

What indeed? Might as well try to figure out who put the Ram in the Ram-A-Lam-A-Ding-Dong, if you know what I mean.

At any rate, this is pretty weak effort from the company that brought us all those fine resophonic guitars. It has a cast aluminum shell, with a spun aluminum resonator, both painted with cheap gilt, and a peghead that's some kind of mutant nightmare. Oh, well, at least they didn't make many of these. . .

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