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  2. Electric guitar - Wikipedia

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    The sound of an electric guitar can be modified by new playing techniques such as string bending, tapping, and hammering-on, using audio feedback, or slide guitar playing. There are several types of electric guitar. Early forms were hollow-body semi-acoustic guitars, while solid body guitars developed later.

  3. Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts - Wikipedia

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    Manufactured by Ro-Pat-In Corporation, Rickenbacker, the Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts is considered the pioneering "grandfather" to the modern electric guitar as it was the first commercially produced, full-scale (twenty-five inch) electric guitar ever produced. [1]

  4. Frying Pan (guitar) - Wikipedia

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    The Rickenbacker Electro A-22, nicknamed the "Frying Pan" is the first electric lap steel guitar, also widely considered the first commercially successful electric guitar. Developed in 1931/1932, it received its patent in August 1937. [ 1 ]

  5. Rickenbacker - Wikipedia

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    Early examples bear the brand name 'Electro'. [1]: 12 The early instruments were nicknamed "frying-pans" because of their long necks and small circular bodies. They are the first known solid-bodied electric guitars, though they were a lap-steel type. They had a single pickup with two magnetized steel covers, shaped like horseshoes, that arched ...

  6. Leo Fender - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1940s, solid-body electric guitars began to rise in popularity, yet they were still considered novelty items, with the Rickenbacker Spanish Electro guitar being the most commercially available solid-body, and Les Paul's one-off home-made "Log" and the Bigsby Travis guitar made by Paul Bigsby for Merle Travis being the most visible ...

  7. Kay Musical Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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    Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. — history focused on the development of early electric guitars, based on the other references. "Kay History". KingOfKays.com. — another short history, which covers slightly different topics. Models "Antique Vintage Guitars Info". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. "Vintage American ...

  8. Jazz guitar - Wikipedia

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    Archtop guitars are steel-string acoustic guitars with a big soundbox, arched top, violin-style f-holes, a "floating bridge" and magnetic or piezoelectric pickups. Early makers of jazz guitars included Gibson, Epiphone, D'Angelico and Stromberg. The electric guitar is plugged into a guitar amplifier to make it sound loud enough for performance ...

  9. List of guitars - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Garcia's Rosebud guitar. Red Special – an electric guitar owned by Queen guitarist Brian May and custom-built by him and his father Harold over a two-year period beginning in 1963. [55] The Red Special is also sometimes named in reviews as the Fireplace or the Old Lady, both nicknames used by May when referring to the guitar. [56] [57]

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