In an effort to improve the tone of the Hawaiian Guitar I designed and built this instrument about two years ago. The body is much bigger than a jumbo guitar, the bridge that I built from scratch is moved down towards the bottom of the table, which, in order to retain the string length, shortens the neck. Like a Weissenborn, this makes almost the whole body a resonant chamber. The sound is much sweeter than a Dobro, but is not very loud. With all the sound reflections going on inside the body it sounds like an acoustic version of an echo chamber, so there are a lot of overtones. The internal barring is fanned out from under the bridge, but because the bridge is further back it looks quite different inside than a Martin or a classical.
(The lining is much better than it looks in the photo...)
