![]() ![]() As a result, they are often favored by slide players. Because of the high mass of three cones, tricones require a lot of energy to get going (and so they have slow attack) but they can sustain for an exceptionally long time. They’re fairly small and arranged in a triangle inside the body, with a large cast-aluminum T-bar bridge connecting them. Tricone resonators, as the name implies, have three cones. There are three primary types (excluding a few antiquated designs that are mostly forgotten): ![]() What are the different types of resonator guitar? To hold up under all that downward pressure, the cone is made of aluminum instead of paper, but it still functions just like the speaker cone in your guitar amp. The strings rest on the bridge, which rests on the cone. They have a speaker cone ( the resonator itself) inside the body, and the vibrations of the strings are transferred to the cone not by pickups and tubes but by mechanical transfer through the bridge. ![]() To understand resonators, don’t think of them as acoustic guitars think of them as electric guitars without the electrical components. Please check them out, as words only go so far in describing the sound and appearance of an instrument. I’ve included a lot of links to pictures and Youtube videos. I’ll try to minimize the history lessons here it’ll be a long enough post without them.
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