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The business also sidelined in carrying records for sale and the rental of company-designed PA systems. Leo became intrigued by design flaws in contemporary musical instrument amplifiers and began building amplifiers based on his own designs or modifications to designs. Diagram of Leo Fender's lap steel guitar from a 1944 patent application.
Darick Campbell (1966–2020) was a lap steel player for the gospel band, The Campbell Brothers, who took the musical tradition from Pentecostal churches to international fame. [48] Campbell played a traditional Hawaiian lap steel: [48] a Fender Stringmaster 8-string (Fender Deluxe-8). [2]
During World War II, Fender met Clayton Orr "Doc" Kauffman, [1] an inventor and lap steel player who had worked for Rickenbacker, which had been building and selling lap steel guitars for a decade. While with Rickenbacker, Kauffman had invented the " Vibrola " tailpiece, a precursor to the later vibrato tailpiece.
Noel Boggs, a lap steel player with Bob Wills, received the first steel guitar made by instrument maker Leo Fender in 1953. Fender relied on prominent performers to field test his instruments. [ 17 ] Boggs was one of the first players to switch to a different neck during a solo. [ 2 ]
Console steel guitars are typically heavier instruments that have multiple necks and/or more than six strings per neck and are therefore not manageable on the player's lap. This type of instrument was created when players in the late 1940s needed to play in different keys and with different chords than the lap steel afforded. [ 1 ]
Electromuse was an American maker of musical instruments that operated in the 1940s and 1950s. [citation needed]It was probably best known for its line of Hawaiian lap steel guitars. [1]
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