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Paul was Miller's godfather and his first guitar teacher. [65] [66] Ford gave birth to their first child on November 30, 1954, but the girl was born prematurely and died when she was four days old. [64] They adopted a girl, Colleen, in 1958, and their son, Robert (Bobby), was born the following year. Paul and Ford divorced in December 1964. [53]
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 .
The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Definitive, 2005) Solo Flight: Live! with the Benny Goodman Sextet (Definitive, 2008) On the Air (Fuel 2000/Varèse Sarabande, 2009) Yale University Archives, Vol. 5: NBC Broadcast Recordings 1936-1943 (Nimbus, 2010) Electric, with the Benny Goodman Sextet and the Charlie Christian Quartet (Uptown, 2011)
Electric Guitars were an English band formed early in 1980 by Neil Davenport (vocals, lyrics) and Richard Hall (bass, vocals) who were both studying English at Bristol University. The band soon increased to a five-man line-up, with Andy Sanders (guitar, vocals), Matt Salt (drums) and Dick Truscott (keyboards), they also later added two backing ...
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."
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.
After graduating from high school in 1948, the twins began traveling around the country as the Williams Sisters, playing Hawaiian steel guitar at three to four school assemblies a day and ...
In 1935, he was the first to record an electrically amplified guitar [4] with Jimmie Lunceford in "Hittin' the Bottle" that was recorded in New York for Decca. [5] In 1938, Durham recorded single string electric guitar solos with the Kansas City Five (or Six), which were both smallish groups that included members of Count Basie's rhythm section ...