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On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Reno McCormick and I'm here to tell you about playing the
Dobro today. What we have in here is a sound well, usually rung with maple, and the speaker
sets inside. And then we have, these are sound hole covers. All they do is add tone. The
three holes in the middle, they just let air escape. So, we have air going in, we have,
it's just in and out, push, pull. We have different cones that go in there, Quarterman
cones, deliver different tone than say your standard Dobro cone. Depends on the music
you're playing, you'll change cones, you'll change bridges. By the way your bridge is
made of maple and it's just insert into that spider bridge. And there's an adjusting screw
in here that we can tighten our tension or loosen our tension, if we get buzzes. We have
to loosen it up, or tighten it up, depending. You just experiment until you get it right.