A Rickenbacker 330 is an Electric Guitar that is part of the Rickenbacker 300 line. It is one of their most well known Guitars and is not sold in stores, having to be ordered specially.
Founder of the Rickenbacker Guitar Co.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Rickenbacker
USA - a Rickenbacker pan guitar.
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The first electric guitar with "pickups" was the Rickenbacker. It was developed by Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp in the 1930's.The Les Paul
1930
George Beauchamp first invented the electrically amplified guitar in 1931, but it was Adolph Rickenbacker (Rickenbacker corporation) who developed the first electric guitar in 1932..
Adolph Rickenbacker
The electric guitar was was developed during the 1930s by the Rickenbacker Internation Coroporation.
Rickenbacker in 1931 they called it the frying pan guitar, 2700 where made.
California in a company called Rickenbacker in 1931 , the first guitar was nicknamed a frying pan guitar.
The Rickenbacker C series electric guitar does not come with an amp. You will need to buy one seperately.
I think rickenbacker. They made the frying pan guitar in the 30's