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Quick Navigation General Mandolin Discussions Top Schmidt will arise from their graves to protest. Capitalize/don't capitalize "Autoharp" as you will. Besides, a lot of people make resonator guitars besides Dobro, and if you're playing a Beard or a Scheerhorn (or in my case, a DeNeve), can you really legally call it a "Dobro"? I remember when Bluegrass Unlimited magazine dropped the term "dobro" from its articles and reviews, replacing it with "resonator guitar," in order to fend off Gibson's insistence that "Dobro" be capitalized and referred to as a registered trademark. They went out of business, but eventually the "Dobro" trademark was acquired or re-registered by Gibson, who now manufactures Dobros. The feckless Beauchamp went out of business pretty quickly in the Depression, and the Doperas (or Dopyeras, depending on how you spell it), reacquired National and set up National Dobro Co. "Dobro" is/was another brand name, established by the Dopera Brothers after they split from George Beauchamp and lost control of the National Guitar Co.

They still guard the trademark Charley Zimmermann established 128 years ago! And you will notice on their website, that when they mention Autoharps, it's "Autoharps ™," capitalized. It's main function seems to be as a nameplate for lines of imported instruments. is still very much alive, now a division of US Music Co. (All this arcane and semi-interesting history courtesy of The Autoharp Book by Becky Blackley, i.a.d. "Autoharp" has been a trademark of Oscar Schmidt-International ever since. in 1926 Oscar Schmidt was a major stockholder in International, and his main firm, Oscar Schmidt Co., absorbed International and its patents and trademarks in 1931. Trademark passed to the International Musical Co.

of Boston, which registered the trademark (it apparently passed through Theodore Roth, a Zimmermann Co. Dolge went bankrupt in 1898, and manufacture of Autoharps passed to the Phonoharp Co. Dolge ran his Autoharp factory under the "C F Zimmerman Co." label. In 1893 he sold the "rights and trademark" to Alfred Dolge (who is the "Dolge" of "Dolgeville NY" on your Autoharp label when he moved his piano-felt factory to Brockett's Bridge in the Adirondacks from NY City, the grateful residents of the town changed its name to "Dolgeville"). Charles Zimmermann of Philadelphia patented and trademarked the Autoharp in 1882. Well, learn something new (nearly) every day.Well, again, not exactly. The brand name may yet be a trademark, but I see mine has a label stating it is an Original Zimmermann Autoharp from the Zimmermann Autoharp Company of Ogleville NY - now presumably defunct and hence moot from a litigious standpoint. Thank you (again) for your scholarly insight.