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Watch this 1937 Mickey Mouse cartoon and you'll hear him playing the Weissenborn guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdqbYfTHmA&feature=related
The Weissenborn, invented in the 1920s by Hermann Weissenborn, a German immigrant luthier residing in California via New York, is a species of lap steel guitar that sounds like a cross between the resonator (aka "Dobro") and the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Coincidentally, the luthier did in the same year as the release of this cartoon!
Here's a video of Ben Harper with a Weissenborn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRGmEkm5R9I
~Ben
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