To appear more modern and flashy, #RobertJohnson bought a wooden-bodied guitar with an imitation resonator to provide more volume. RJ wasnt the only guitarist to try to impress people with such a piece of musical chicanery. Years later, a very young B. B. King fashioned a fake resonator plate out of an old piece of tin and attached it to the top of his guitar. Like Robert's, the plate did nothing, but it looked and special unique. RJ swore to all who would listen that the metal plate (which actually did nothing) increased the volume of the instrument, and that with this new guitar he was leaving the old folks behind. "We asked him many times, Why do you have it on there?"" Willie Moore related. "He say, "Well, that makes my guitar sound louder, see. This here's put on there to make it sound louder. He didn't have no electric to it." True resonator guitars had just started being manufactured, and many companies, such as Regal, began releasing imitation resonators: plain wooden guitars with a fake metal resonator plate on the top of the body.
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Le musée Rodin - Paris reste ouvert ce jeudi 14 mai ✨
Profitez-en pour flâner dans le jardin de sculptures, en
pleine saison des roses en fleur!
🕙 10h – 18h30, dernière entrée à 17h45
📍 77, rue de Varenne 75007 Paris
#DansNosCollections 🔎
📢 Rendez-vous sur le Plateau des collections du #quaiBranly pour admirer cette peinture de l'artiste congolais Pilipili Mulongoy (1914-2007).
ℹ️ Sans titre [Animaux], Pilipili Mulongoy (1914-2007), Années 1950, peinture à l'huile sur toile