Easy Guitar Songs For Beginners Beginner Guitar Lesson Online » History of The Electric Guitar http://www.easyguitarsongsforbeginners.com Easy Guitar Lessons Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 History of The Electric Guitar http://www.easyguitarsongsforbeginners.com/history-of-the-electric-guitar http://www.easyguitarsongsforbeginners.com/history-of-the-electric-guitar#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:42:00 +0000 admin http://www.easyguitarsongsforbeginners.com/?p=73 Everybody grows up dreaming about being a rock star, about being able to shred on an and impress the masses. Even one of the most popular video games of today, Guitar Hero, is based around people's primal urge to play the guitar. The electric guitar has been the single most defining element of music for [...]]]>

Everybody grows up dreaming about being a rock star, about being able to shred on an and impress the masses. Even one of the most popular video games of today, Guitar Hero, is based around people's primal urge to play the guitar. The electric guitar has been the single most defining element of music for the 20th century and it's evolvement from the big band orchestra to the bands we know today.

Who Invented the Electric Guitar?

During the 1920's and 1930's many individuals and companies were experimenting with designs that would enable them to make guitars louder. With bands getting larger, and audiences getting louder, it was important to be able to hear the actual, individual instruments.

In 1924, Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Guitar Company was developing a means (an electric pickup) to pass the vibrationsgibson les paul guitar

of the strings through a bridge to a magnet and coil, whereupon they were passed as electrical signals to an amplification device. By 1928 "electric guitars" were officially being marketed and sold to the public.

However, the problem with this was that in transferring the vibrations to a medium before being sent to an amplifier, the signal was too weak. So a more direct method had to be developed. The first to do this, and get the patent for it, was George Beauchamp, along with Adolph Rickenbacker and his company.

The guitar was known both as "The Pancake Guitar"

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