Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Electric Guitar History


During the era of Big Band in the 20's and 30's, the music artist experiments with fixing microphones on acoustic guitar to enhance the sound. Most electric guitars with hollow bodies were electro-acoustic pick-up. But inside the cavity of the guitar produces vibrations that lasted reactions, if the interaction with electric pickup.

The producers Solid Body guitars get rid of public opinion. One former body guitars aluminums firm has been an instrument known as the "Pan-Brat" or "pancakes guitar." In 1940, Les Paul attempts a solid body of the instrument known as the "newspaper of the guitar", so called because it is a simple letter with the throat, ropes and pick-up. The electric guitar has not met with success, until the 1950's, if Fender issued its first-Body-Solid Model: Esquire. The Esquire was followed by the Telecaster, and finally in 1954, the Stratocaster.

The aggressive sounds of the electric guitar was characteristic of the Rock and Roll in the 60's and 70's. It was a high-profile, meanwhile, appear on the scene, with dozens of groups and musicians famous.

Thus was born the demand for affordable electric guitars. In the 60's and 70's, electric guitars were too expensive for the average buyer. But it was not until 1980 that the Japanese manufacturers to strengthen ahead with affordable electric guitars, sounded well. This pressure on Americans companies like Fender and Gibson, who are pursuing their own accessible.

Today, the electric guitar is one of the most fertile instruments in popular music. You are in a wide variety of types of metal for New Age.

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