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History
Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar or some may call the lap steel guitar. Initially, electric guitars consisted primarily of hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies to which electromagnetic transducers had been attached. An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed acoustic or semi-acoustic Guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top whose sound is particularly
Early years
Electric guitars were originally designed by an assortment of luthiers, electronics enthusiasts, and instrument manufacturers, in varying combinations. Some of the earliest electric guitars, then essentially adapted hollow bodied acoustic instruments, used tungsten pickups and were manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. A semi-acoustic guitar or hollow-body electric is a type of Electric guitar with both a Sound box and one or more electric pickups. A steel-string acoustic guitar, is a modern form of Guitar descended from the Classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter louder sound A Tungsten or Tungs-Tone is a type of Phonograph Stylus. They are constructed from Tungsten wire which is held in a metal shank The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. For the American WWI fighter pilot see Eddie Rickenbacker. For the airport see Rickenbacker International Airport. In 1935, a Soviet scientist working separately from his western colleagues was known to have produced an electric Russian guitar called the "Kuznetsov electromagnetic guitar". The Russian guitar is a seven-string acoustic Guitar that arrived in Russia toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century most probably It was exhibited at a technology expo in Moscow, but its development was halted since the Stalin regime was hostile to guitar music.
The version of the instrument that is best known today is the solid body electric guitar, a guitar made of solid wood, without resonating airspaces within it. A solid body electric instrument is a String instrument such as a guitar, bass or Violin built without its normal Sound box and relying
At least one company, Audiovox, built and may have offered an electric solid-body as early as the mid-1930s. Audiovox Corporation ( established in 1965 Audiovox continues to operate and expand under its chairman and founder John J Rickenbacher, later spelled Rickenbacker offered a cast aluminum electric guitar, nicknamed The Frying Pan or The Pancake Guitar, beginning in 1933. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Another early solid body electric guitar was designed and built by musician and inventor Les Paul in the early 1940s, working after hours in the Epiphone Guitar factory. Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9 1915) is an American Jazz guitarist and Inventor. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The Epiphone Company is a Musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos His log guitar (so called because it consisted of a simple 4x4 wood post with a neck attached to it and homemade pickups and hardware, with two detachable Swedish hollow body halves attached to the sides for appearance only) was patented and is often considered to be the first of its kind, although it shares nothing in design or hardware with the solid body "Les Paul" model sold by Gibson.
Fender
In 1950 and 1951, electronics and instrument amplifier maker Clarence Leonidas Fender - better known as Leo Fender - through his eponymous company, designed the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar with a single magnetic pickup, which was initially named the "Esquire". Clarence Leonidas Fender ( August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991) also known as Leo Fender, was an American inventor who The Fender Esquire is a solid body Electric guitar manufactured by Fender, and was the first guitar sold by Fender in 1950 The two-pickup version of the Esquire was called the "Broadcaster". However, Gretsch had a drumset marketed with a similar name (Broadkaster), so Fender changed the name to "Telecaster" in homage to the new phenomenon of television. Gretsch is a US Musical instrument manufacturer currently being distributed by Guitar company Fender and Drum craft company The Fender Telecaster, also known as the Tele (pronounced Telly is typically a dual-pickup solid-body Electric guitar made by Fender. Features of the Telecaster included: an ash body; a maple 25½" scale, 21-fret neck attached to the body with four-bolts reinforced by a steel neckplate; two single-coil, 6-pole pickups (bridge and neck positions) with tone and volume knobs, pickup selector switch; and an output jack mounted on the side of the body. Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. A black bakelite pickguard concealed body routings for pickups and wiring. The bolt-on neck was consistent with Leo Fender's belief that the instrument design should be modular to allow cost-effective and consistent manufacture and assembly, as well as simple repair or replacement. Due to the earlier mentioned trademark issue, the earliest Telecasters were delivered with headstock decals with the Fender logo but no model identification, and are commonly referred to by collectors as "Nocasters".
In 1954, Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat". Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of Electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares It was positioned as a deluxe model and offered various product improvements and innovations over the Telecaster. These innovations included an ash or alder double-cutaway body design for badge assembly with an integrated vibrato mechanism (called a synchronized tremolo by Fender, thus beginning a confusion of the terms that still continues), three single-coil pickups, and body comfort contours. Vibrato is a musical effect produced in singing and on musical instruments by a regular pulsating change of pitch, and is used to add expression and vocal-like qualities to A tremolo arm or tremolo bar (also called a "whammy bar" or "wang bar" is a lever attached to the bridge and/or the Tailpiece of Leo Fender is also credited with developing the first commercially-successful electric bass called the Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the The Fender Precision Bass (sometimes shortened to the " P Bass " is an electric bass guitar, and was the first widely-available model of the instrument Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January
Gibson
Gibson, like many guitar manufacturers, had long offered semi-acoustic guitars with pickups, and previously rejected Les Paul and his "log" electric in the 1940s. The Gibson Guitar Corporation of Nashville Tennessee, USA is a manufacturer of acoustic and Electric guitars The company's most popular guitar Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss on June 9 1915) is an American Jazz guitarist and Inventor. In apparent response to the Telecaster, Gibson introduced the first Gibson Les Paul solid body guitar in 1952 (although Les Paul was actually brought in only towards the end of the design process for expert fine tuning of the nearly complete design and for marketing endorsement [1]). The Fender Telecaster, also known as the Tele (pronounced Telly is typically a dual-pickup solid-body Electric guitar made by Fender. The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody Electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Features of the Les Paul include a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top (much like a violin and earlier Gibson archtop hollow body electric guitars) and contrasting edge binding, two single-coil "soapbar" pickups, a 24¾" scale mahogany neck with a more traditional glued-in "set" neck joint, binding on the edges of the fretboard, and a tilt-back headstock with three machine heads (tuners) to a side. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member A pickup device acts as a Transducer that captures mechanical vibrations (usually from suitably equipped Stringed instruments such as the Electric guitar Set-in neck is a method of Guitar (or similar stringed instrument construction that involves joining guitar neck and body pressing them tightly together using some sort of The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments is a part of most Stringed instruments It is a thin long strip of Wood that is This article is about part of a stringed instrument A headstock is also the motorized chuck on a Lathe. The earliest models had a combination bridge and trapeze-tailpiece design that was in fact designed by Les Paul himself, but was largely disliked and discontinued after the first year. Gibson then developed the Tune-o-matic bridge and separate stop tailpiece, an adjustable non-vibrato design that has endured. Tune-o-matic (also abbreviated to TOM) is a name of fixed bridge design for Electric guitars It was designed by Ted McCarty ( Gibson By 1957, Gibson had made the final major change to the Les Paul as we know it today - the humbucking pickup, or humbucker. A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of Electric guitar pickup that uses two coils both generating string signal The humbucker, invented by Seth Lover, was a dual-coil pickup which featured two windings connected out of phase and reverse-wound, in order to cancel the 60-cycle hum associated with single-coil pickups; as a byproduct, however, it also produces a distinctive, more "mellow" tone which appeals to many guitarists. Seth Lover ( January 1 1910 in Kalamazoo Michigan &ndash January 31 1997 in Garden Grove California) is most famous for The more traditionally designed and styled Gibson solid-body instruments were a contrast to Leo Fender's modular designs, with the most notable differentiator being the method of neck attachment and the scale of the neck (Gibson-24. 75", Fender-25. 5"). Each design has its own merits. To this day, the basic design of many solid-body electric guitar available today are derived from the original designs - the Telecaster, Stratocaster and the Les Paul.
Vox
In 1962 Vox introduced the pentagonal Phantom guitar, originally made in England but soon after made by EKO of Italy. The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody Electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s The Gibson SG is a popular model of solid-bodied Electric guitar that was introduced in the early 1960s It was followed a year later by the teardrop-shaped Mark VI, the prototype of which was used by Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969 was a founding member and Guitarist of the English Rock group The Rolling Stones. Vox guitars also experimented with onboard effects and electronics. In the mid 1960s, as the sound of electric 12 string guitar became popular, Vox introduced the Phantom XII and Mark XII electric 12 string guitars. Vox produced many more traditional 6 and 12 string electric guitars in both England and Italy.
GuitarOrgan
In 1966 Vox introduced the revolutionary but problematic GuitarOrgan, a Phantom VI guitar with internal organ electronics. The instrument's trigger mechanism required a specially-wired plectrum that completed circuit connections to each fret, resulting in a very wide and unwieldy neck. John Lennon was given one in a bid to secure an endorsement, though this never panned out. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born According to Up-Tight: the Velvet Underground Story, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also tried one; when asked by the Velvets if it "worked", his answer was negative. This article is about the band For their self-titled album see The Velvet Underground (album; for the book see The Velvet Underground (book Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969 was a founding member and Guitarist of the English Rock group The Rolling Stones. The instrument never became popular, but it was a precursor to the modern guitar synthesizer.
Other guitars
1991 saw the introduction of guitar designer Jol Dantzig's first truly workable acoustic-electric hybrid guitar. Jolyon C Dantzig ( Jol Dantzig) is known as a guitar designer Guitarist, Luthier, and one of the founders of Hamer Guitars. The instrument, called the DuoTone, was conceived while Dantzig was at Hamer Guitars. Hamer Guitars is an American manufacturer that specializes in the production of high quality Guitars It was founded in Illinois by Jol Dantzig and (Dantzig was also the designer of the first 12 string bass. ) Adapted by players like Ty Tabor, Stone Gossard, Elvis Costello and Jeff Tweedy, the DuoTone was a full "duplex" instrument that could switch between acoustic and electric tones. Recently there have been many entries in the hybrid category (capable of both acoustic and electric tones) including the T5 by Taylor, Michael Kelly's "Hybrid," the Parker Fly and the Anderson Crowdster.
See also
The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on mainly electric guitars such as the Fender Jazzmaster that has the strings continue through to the The Fender Telecaster, also known as the Tele (pronounced Telly is typically a dual-pickup solid-body Electric guitar made by Fender. The Fender Bullet was a short-lived electric guitar designed by John Page and manufactured and marketed by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Fender Cyclone and Fender Cyclone II were a series of Electric guitars made by Fender. The Fender Duo-Sonic guitar was introduced by Fender in 1956 as a “student” model guitar The Fender Electric XII was a purpose-built 12-string Electric guitar, designed for Folk rockers Instead of using a Stratocaster -body style The Fender Jaguar is an Electric guitar which was introduced in 1962 The Fender Jag-Stang is an electric guitar that is a hybrid of two Fender Electric guitars a Fender Jaguar and a Fender Mustang. The Fender Jazzmaster is an Electric guitar that was first introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show and was designed as a more upmarket instrument than the Fender Contemporary Stratocaster Electric guitars were produced by Fender Japan in the 1980s The Fender Lead Series was produced by the Fender/Rogers/Rhodes Division of CBS Musical Instruments The Fender Musicmaster is an Electric guitar by Fender, and was the first of their 3/4 scale guitars The Fender Mustang is an Electric guitar by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, introduced in 1964 as the basis of a major redesign of Fender's The Fender Prodigy is a discontinued model of Electric guitar produced by Fender from 1991 to 1993. The Fender Performer was designed for high-performance guitarist in the mid 1980s The Fender Showmaster is a model of Electric guitar made by Fender, and is characteristic of a Superstrat. The Fender Starcaster was a hollowbody Electric guitar made by the Fender company The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as the Strat, is a model of Electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares The Buddy Guy Polka-Dot Stratocaster is a signature Electric guitar model produced by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation for blues guitarist Buddy Guy The Eric Clapton Stratocaster is the signature model Electric guitar of English Guitarist Eric Clapton, and was the first signature model Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Guitarist and recording artist from Austin Texas. The Hello Kitty Stratocaster is an original series of Affinity Stratocaster Electric guitar made by Squier ( Fender) Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, England) is an English The 'Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster' is an artist series electric guitar made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation for Texas blues Guitarist Jimmie The Mark Knopfler Fender Stratocaster has a 1957 ash body a 1962 C-shape maple neck with a rosewood The Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster is one of the Fender Stratocaster signature series Electric guitars It follows the same specifications of the Stratocaster used The Fender Robert Cray Standard Stratocaster is a signature model Guitar made by Fender. The 'Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature' is an Electric guitar made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster is a replica of the guitar used by Swedish Heavy metal guitarist Yngwie J The Fender Stratocaster XII is the 12 string version of the Fender Stratocaster Electric guitar made by Fender. A Fat Strat is a name for a design of electric guitars that are based on the Fender Stratocaster, but have a Humbucking pickup at the bridge position instead of a The Fender Telecaster, also known as the Tele (pronounced Telly is typically a dual-pickup solid-body Electric guitar made by Fender. Fender Telecaster Custom is a model of Electric guitar made by Fender. The Fender Telecaster Deluxe is a solid-body Electric guitar originally produced from 1972 to 1981 and since re-issued by Fender in 2004 as the '72 The J5 Telecaster is John 5's signature model Telecaster, and was designed in part by John 5 himself The Squier Telecaster is an electric guitar manufactured and sold by Squier, a marque of Fender. The Toronado is an Electric guitar made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Fender Swinger (also known as the Fender Musiclander and Fender Arrow – as the "Swinger" name is usually missing from the headstock was a short-lived For the amplifier of the same name see Fender Bronco Amp The Fender Bronco was an Electric guitar model produced by the Fender The Fender Custom (or Maverick) was a short-lived model released by the CBS -owned Fender in 1969 The Fender Katana is a type of Electric guitar built by the Fender company The Gibson Explorer (now marketed as X-plorer and Explorer Pro) is a type of Electric guitar. The Gibson Moderne is an Electric guitar model first designed by Gibson in 1958.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic