Who was the first person to play an electric guitar?

Answer 1

In 1931 the Electro String Company was founded by Paul Barth, George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker, and developed the first electric Guitars marketed to the general public. They made their guitars from cast aluminum and were played on a person's lap using a steel slide much like today's steel guitar. Because of their unusual material, they were affectionately called "Frying Pans." The early success of the frying pans prompted the Gibson guitar company to build their first Electric Guitar, the ES-150 which is a legend today. The First Solid-Body Electric Guitar n Electric guitars were quickly becoming popular, even though there was a major problem with their construction. Their bodies would vibrate due to the amplified sounds coming through the speakers they were played into, causing what we know as feed-back. The obvious remedy was to build a guitar made with a solid body which wouldn't vibrate so easily. As with most innovations, there is controversy over who invented the first solid -body electric guitar. Guitar legend Les Paul in the 1940's developed his affectionately called "The sog" solid-body guitar by attaching a Gibson neck to a solid piece of wood…a railroad tie, hence the name "Log." Around this same time, guitarist Merle Travis and engineer Paul Bigsby developed a solid-body electric guitar that resembled the solid-body guitars that we're so familiar with today.
The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers. By 1932 an electrically amplified guitar was commercially available. An early commercially successful solid-body electric guitar was the Fender Esquire in 1950.

i know the electric guitar was create in 1930s

Answer 2

The first Bass Guitar was invented by Paul Tutmarc in Seattle, Washington, USA in the early 1930's. It was known as the "Electric Bass Fiddle," and appeared in a catalog by Tutmarc's company, Audiovox, in 1935. Much smaller than the double bass, this bass was easier to carry. This bass was not fretted, however, and was not quite as popular as its descendant.

The "Electric Bass Fiddle" design was innovated greatly by Leo Fender, founder of what is now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Using a telecaster-body design, Fender came out with the "Precision Bass," a.k.a. "P-Bass" in 1951. It was fretted like a guitar, which allowed players greater ease in playing in tune (hence the name: "Precision Bass"). Not only was this model easier to carry than a double bass, but it was also much easier to play in tune. This model was extremely popular and was the first bass guitar as we know it today.

Answer 3

here's a list and why, believe me i can go on forever im a big guitar nerd, in all honesty how wasn't it the last 60 or so years.

more strings than just 6 - 7 ...8...ect are all getting more common now

more thicker and thinner strings , its preference not like shoe size for us, thicker is better for metal , thinner for higher tunings.

different kinds of wood used than just mahogany and maple , alder or whatever comes to mind for classic guitars

locking tuners, these are regular tuners on the head of the guitar that lock making it more difficult for the strings to slip out losing pitch

different shaped necks - there are C , D , V and U shaped now instead of just one, each is preference instead of just one. C is very thin as is U, D is thicker and V is hard to explain but very cool.

longer necks - than just 24.5 or so for electric guitar necks, if physics taught us anything its that the longer a neck the better it is for low notes, see this is why bass guitars have bigger necks and strings

different sized frets - we started with one gauge (size) of wire commonly but companies started using bigger and taller frets for different things , medium, jumbo , extra jumbo.. tall..ect

different forms of construction to build the guitar as in bolt on (bolted to the body) , neckthrough which is one solid piece of wood from the body to the head of the guitar , and set neck which is the body glued to the neck.

Active pickups , these are incredibly high output compared to say pickups in the 50s , they require a 9 volt battery and are very popular in the metal scene compared to the vintage stuff. They last 3000 hours each for battery life.

higher output pickups as well , normal passive pickups which is the other kind came out in the 50s but guitar makers found ways of really pushing the power of normal pickups , both will work on guitars, just active require new electronics and a battery. Passive you never have to switch anything just pick up and play.

electronics, weather it be a self tuning guitar, knobs that add gain or a switch to split coils on a humbucker or synth or piezo crystal pickups hidden on the bridge of the guitar its gone a lone way than just two voumes and a toggle switch/blade.

floyd rose bridges, at first we had just bigsby and fender two point tremolos to add dives and stuff to our notes than this American by the name of Floyd Rose came along and created a whammy bar system that could pull up and down, this would also "spawn" the locking nut on the nut of the guitar which can be used on normal guitars.

shape perhaps , tools we're using now vs then... this is a very long list but thats the jist of it.

Answer 4

jimi Hendrix was 100% the first and best to play the electric guitar. if you don't believe me go to you tube and listen to star spangle banner.

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Answer 5

The instruments commonly acknowledged as the earlierst electric guitars were made of wood in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and served largely as prototypes for commercially produced instruments.

They include the Rickenbacker "Frying Pan" lap steel and the ViviTone guitars designed by Lloyd Loar. ViviTone instruments were never produced in large numbers, but Rickenbacker's production version of the "Frying Pan" was made from a single piece of cast aluminium and became an immediate success, remaining in production into the 1950s. The earliest production "Spanish-style" electric guitar was also by Rickenbacker, made from two moulded Bakelite (phenolic resin) components bolted together.

Shortly afterwards, many other companies started fitting their existing wooden archtop guitars with magnetic pickups, and this remained the standard construction method until Fender introduced their solid-slab-bodied Broadcaster (later renamed the Telecaster) in 1950. Although made from wood, this borrowed the two-part bolted construction from the earlier Rickenbacker Bakelite model.