History of the Electric Guitar

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History of the Electric Guitar

• By Justin Hayes

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Invention of the electric pickup

• Invented in late 1920s by Lloyd Loar
• Faradays Law of Induction
• Didnt catch on at all.
• Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp
• Perfected Loars design
• Rickenbacker began selling the Frying Pan
• Hawaiian lap steel players love it
• other players didnt

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Mass Production

• Leo Fender invents the Telecaster
• First mass produced solid body electric guitar
• Cheap to produce, affordable
• Gibson introduces the Les Paul
• Higher end model endorsed by Les Paul
• Both models are still sold today
• Solid Body guitars are designed for
  amplification
• Sound much better than old style modified hollow
  bodies, less feedback.

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Continued

• Guitars shapes have become increasingly modern
  (ex. Flying V)
• Preamplifiers inside guitar
• Basic construction and operation has stayed the
  same
• Much cheaper now
• Ex. Gibson and Epiphone, Fender and Squire

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Amplifiers

• Cant have the electric guitar without the
  amplifier
• Guitar ---gt Pre-Amp---gtPower-Amp---gtSpeaker
• First amplifiers were modified stereo equipment
• Manufacturers started building guitar specific
  amp in the 1930s
• Until 1970s most amps were tube powered
• Refinement of silicon transistors led to solid
  state
• Tube sound is sought after, solid state amps
  emulate tube amps, distortion.
• Computer technology has lead to modeling amps
• Can often emulate many (20) different models

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Questions?