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> I love my Dobro, I play slide with alternate tunings, Usually G or E, it’s awesome. I have a hound-dog resonator it’s acoustic/electric. I’m also a pro level bassist so I have a lot of guitars and stuff.

Over the years I've acquired instruments based mostly on what bands I was in and what worked best (e.g. I got into a 60's cover band that did a lot of Byrds, Beatles, etc. and thus the Ric 12-string had to be). But never had occasion to need a Dobro, although I love the sound. My collection is full -- can't fit anything more on the wall, lol -- but I've always wanted a good excuse to get a Dobro. I'd likely tune open-E, that's what I do when I play slide.

Who knows, maybe before my fingers get arthritic (I'm 72 and so far so good) I'll find a band that needs a Dobro player and convince myself that I should start hanging things on the other wall. :-)

I played a guy's Dobro one night at a club just to check it out. It was just standard tuned but I loved the sound and feel of it. After playing a couple songs it planted a seed in the back of my head I guess because a couple yrs later I saw a used Gibson Hound-dog resonator on the wall at a Guitar center. I had the guy take it down for me and went in the sound room and played on it for about an hour. I ended up buying it for about $700. When I played it at home for a while it was cool but I ended up putting it down because I have quite a few other axes and basses so I was busy with other stuff.

After a while I realized it was probably best for playing slide on so I taught myself to play slide on it which is cool because it added another dimension to my repertoire. I also prefer to play tuned to E, but there's other tunings that work well too. The beautiful thing about music is you can never stop learning and you can never learn enough.

Freegards, Bullish.