Electric guitar

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Electric guitar · In a big band, an acoustic guitar disappeared behind the horns. In the early 1930s, George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker in Los Angeles built a lap steel guitar with a pickup, a magnet with a coil that converts the vibration of the string into current. In 1936, Gibson released the ES-150, a hollow-body jazz guitar with such a pickup. In the band of Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian showed that the guitar could now be a solo instrument. In Chicago after the war, blues musicians such as Muddy Waters made a raw, loud city sound with it.

Listening

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  Solo Flight · Benny Goodman Orchestra met Charlie Christian, 1941
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  Call It Stormy Monday · T-Bone Walker, 1947
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  Rollin' Stone · Muddy Waters, 1950

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See also

• Fender Precision Bass
• Fender Telecaster
• Gibson Les Paul
• Amplifier and overdrive
• Talk box
• Fender Rhodes
• Electrical recording and the microphone
• Bebop
• Chicago blues
• Rhythm and blues
• Jump blues
• Country