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Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex-Gibson executive Ted McCarty. In 1999, the brand was acquired by Gretsch from McCarty, which owned it until 2019, when Bigsby was sold to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation .
The palm pedal was invented by Boomer Castleman, an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, who designed the prototype in 1968. [1] Bigsby was the manufacturer of this product in the early 1970s. Pro Palm Pedals, a company in Nashville, manufactured palm pedals from 2009 to 2016, when owner Kenny Clark, closed the business, to pursue his ...
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) [1] [2] was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar. Bigsby is best known for designing the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (also mislabeled as a tremolo arm ) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars .
Bigsby was inspired to create a new vibrato system after being tasked by Merle Travis to repair the Kauffman Vibrola on his Gibson L-10. [2] The Bigsby system would debut in 1951, [2] with the first example going to Travis. [3] By the mid-1950s, Bigsby had ceased production of his own guitars and began only producing a range of vibrato ...
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