"Smokie Darling (Annie)" wrote in
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>>> > Guitar legend Les Paul has died at 94
>>>
>>> > Inventor changed course of music with electric guitar, multitrack
>>> > recording
>>>
>>> > The Associated Press
>>> > updated 12:50 p.m. ET, Thurs., Aug 13, 2009
>>>
>>> > NEW YORK - Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the
>>> > course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording
>>> > and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on
>>> > Thursday. He was 94.
>>>
>>> This is probably a better question for the guitar geek groups but:
>>>
>>> Isn't Leo Fender actually credited with the first 'electric' guitar?
>>> I
>> 'm
>>> pretty sure that the Telecaster was first commercially available
>>> electric guitar (1948?) but didn't he also credited with the actual
>>> concept? Im familiar with "The Log" but think Fender was first.
>>>
>>> His multitrack recording really was th big contribution. The way it
>>> wa
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>>> used on the Les Paul/Mary Ford recordings was, IMHO, kind of a
>>> gimmick but, without a doubt, the multilayered recordings of the
>>> 60s-today owe much to Paul,
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>> Fender was the first to mass produce electric guitars (1950 I think).
>> However, there is some discussion as to the "First". See here:
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>> They discuss the designs from approx 1923 by Loar, and that Les Paul
>> built his first "electric" guitar in 1937, while Fender didn't make
>> his until 1947 or 1948.
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>Thanks for posting this. :)
>
>In the seventies and eighties, Les Paul was often and incorrectly
>advertised to be the inventor of the electric guitar. He invented the
>SOLID BODY electric guitar, a design that, for some reason, gives the
>instrument it's uniquely aggressive rock sound and allows techniques
>like power chords and shredding.
>
>When Paul made his breakthrough, pickups had been used on popular,
>commercial, hollow-body guitars for just a little more than ten years.
>IMO, the electric guitar was invented by whomever invented the Faraday
>pickup.
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>I never heard of pickups with "anodes and charged, stretched
>diaphragms," as mentioned in your link, but I doubt they existed when
>Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddly were inventing rock and roll.
>The key to the guitar pickup is Faraday's Law. By the physics of
>electric and magnetic fields, a metal string vibrating in the field of a
>permanent magnet creates an electric current, which is then fed through
>an amplifier to make music.
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>Putting a microphone onto a hollow body guitar is also not an electric
>guitar. Pickups extract the electric signal directly from the string,
>without first converting it to sound waves, as a microphone would do.
>
>An electric guitar won't work without metal strings, like the normal
>catgut strings used on classical acoustic guitars. Faradays Law only
>allows the generation of an electric current when a conductor moves in a
>magnetic field.
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>Faraday's Law. It's your guide to understanding rock and roll guitar.
Maybe there is a way we could add some Iron to gut or nylon.
I would also like to experiment with things...
like maybe a Be body (hollow). Or other mediums. I think it would be cool to try some odd body materials as well.