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TIL Dobro resonator guitars; with large metallic, sound plates, are much louder. All metal-body resonator guitars inspired Paul Simon's Going to Graceland line, "The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar." David Gilmour's Dobro sold for a record (no pun intended) $112,500. in 1979.

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