History of the Electric Guitar

Electric Guitars originally designed by guitar makers, electronics enthusiasts, and manufacturers of musical instruments. Guitar innovator Les Paul adapted named hollow bodied instruments using tungsten pickups, this type of guitar being produced by Electro String Instrument Corporation in 1932. Their first design was made by Harry Watson, he is an expert who works at the Electro String Company. The new guitar called "Rickenbacker" by the company, and became the first in its kind. The first documentation of the appearance of the electric guitar was in 1932 by a guitarist and bandleader named Gage Brewer. Brewer publish his new instruments in an article in the Wichita Beacon on the date October 2, 1932 and continued to perform in the month. The first recording with an electric guitar made ​​by guitar players such as Andy Iola Hawaiian Style in early 1933.

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wider audience in a large orchestral setting, then developed again with the pedal steel guitar for Gibson. Ediie Durham reintroduce spanish electric guitar to a young man named Charlie Christian made ​​the instrument famous in his life and is generally known as the first electric guitar and also brings great influence in jazz music until the next decade. The first recording of an electric guitar spanish is located in Dallas September 1939, in a session by Roy Newman and His Boys a Western Swing band. Guitarist Jim Boyd wore electric guitar during recording three songs one of them "Corrine, Corrina". Early guitar manufacturers include:

 * Rickenbacker in 1932


* Dobro in 1933


* National, Audio Vox and volu-Ton in 1934


* Vega, Epiphone, and Gibson in 1936


* And many more since 1936

Version of the instrument's most recognizable today is Solid-Bodied Electric Guitar or Electric Guitar Solied Bodied, made ​​of solid wood with no air space in the body. Rickenbacker Electric Guitar by offering an aluminum mold was nicknamed The Frying Pan or The Pancake Guitar. Developed in 1931 and began production in 1932 spring season, this guitar produces sound modern and aggressive. Vox Audio Company makes and perhaps already offers solid body guitar in the middle of 1930. A more solid guitar designed by a musician and inventor Les Paul in the early 1940s, he worked part-time in the Epiphone Guitar. Login guitar the Electric Guitar been patented and is often considered to be the first in its kind.