History: The First Electric Guitar The invention of the electric guitar is, in my opinion, the single greatest influence on modern music. I’m prepared to take some flak with that statement, I won’t dismiss anyone wanting to argue for the synthesizer. But this site’s sole purpose is ...
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Les Paul was not only a great guitar player, he was an innovator and a tinkerer. Around 1940 he was striving for a solid body guitar that the string sounds would use a pickup, he wound himself, to send to an amplifier. It has been said that, Les Paul persuaded Epiphone to let him ...
History of Guitar Effects The first amplified guitars appeared during the swing era in the early 1930s. Back then, big bands ruled the day, and horn players were the stars. Naturally, guitarists wanted to grab some of those solos for themselves, but the natural sound of early amplified gu...
It was a self-playing guitar more than a century before the self-driving car. Matthew Hill, who studies the history and development of musical instruments, built a replica of Breed's guitar based on its patent, and found that the complex electromagnetic system actually vibrates the strings. ...
Modern history The National-Dobro Guitar Company| How the resonator guitar survived the age of electric amplification THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Andrew Zimmerman VeruPeter TJohn Dopyera, who was attempting to increase the sonority of the acoustic guitar, invented the resonator guitar in the mid...
Part of this article was quoted from HISTORY OF ARIA GUITARS By Joe Matera (originally published in Guitar World magazine, July 2023 issue)
with the instrument, however those who know they instrument as well as someone who plays them know they have a vibrant history, are perfect for entertaining and creating, and more so than the average stringed instrument like the more popular big brother, the acoustic guitar, are warmly unique...
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a stringed instrument, e.g., a guitar or a piano, and more particularly to a stringed instrument having a device that drives the strings thereof to sustain the vibration of the string and an electromagnetic driver for the device. ...
The Birth of the Electric Bass Guitar Music would not be the same without the invention of the electric bass guitar. I want you to have this little bit of trivia knowledge for your next game night: Although credit often goes to Leo Fender for the invention of the bass, it was actually ...