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A Look At The History Of The Electric Guitar
By Gray Rollins
Electric Guitars
The Electric guitar hasn’t been around nearly as long as the Acoustic and Classical guitars. In fact, the
Electric guitar was created just 70 years ago (the 1930s) by Adolph Rickenbacker. Since that time, the
Electric guitar has greatly evolved to the where it is today. In this article, we’ll go over the history of the
Electric guitar.
The History
Guitars, or similar instruments, have been around for thousands of years. The Electric guitar was first
manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. Original Electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups
basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to
produce the sound.
The very earliest Electric guitars featured smaller soundholes in the body. These guitars are known as
semi-hollow body Electric guitars and still are somewhat popular today, mainly due to the fact that they
are flexible guitars.
However, with the use of pickups, it was possible to create guitars without soundholes (like the
Acoustic and Classical guitars have) that still had the ability to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers.
These guitars are called solid body Electric guitars.
The Electric guitar’s popularity began to increase during the Big Band era of the ‘30s and 40s. Due to
the loudness of the brass sections in jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be
heard above the sections. Electric guitars, with the ability to be plugged i