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George Delmetia Beauchamp (/ ˈ b iː tʃ ə m / [citation needed]; March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments.He is known for designing the first electrically amplified guitar to be marketed commercially.
Some historians credit Joseph Kekuku with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar about 1889 from an acoustic Spanish guitar. [13] This was long before Hoʻopiʻi's time. As far as the electrified lap steel, Philip Kerr mentions in the 1942 Baptista video that Hoʻopiʻi "was the originator of this electric guitar that he's playing."
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1887 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American production engineer and machinist who, together with George Beauchamp, created the first electric string instrument, and co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company, also with Beauchamp. [1] Rickenbacker was born in Basel, Switzerland as Adolf Rickenbacher. He immigrated ...
Campus A-Go-Go (エレキの若大将, "The young electric guitar wizard") is a 1965 Japanese film starring Yūzō Kayama. It is the sixth in the Wakadaishō series of films. [1] [2] The film was inspired by the mid-sixties electric guitar boom created by the popularity of groups such as The Beatles and The Ventures.
Buddy Bolden, one of the earliest jazz musicians, played in a band in 1889 that was led by guitarist Charlie Galloway. King Oliver, another important early figure, belonged to a band in 1910 that was led by guitarist Louis Keppard, brother of Freddie Keppard. [3] Although jazz guitar existed during these years, banjo was a more popular instrument.
It was the first electric guitar to offer players an extended neck that joined the body at the 17th fret, enabling extended playability on the 22 fret neck; a design element that persists in the current day electric guitar.
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An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals , which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers .