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popular articles random articles Brief History of the Electric Guitar

We are so used to hearing the sound of an electric guitar in almost all modern music recordings can not conceive of this music without it. In fact, most of the rock groups have two or more electric guitar, the main or plotting and backing. But what we really know about this instrument? When did the first electric guitars and who invented? How current are the guitars?

Origins of the electric guitar

In the 1920's in dance bands and jazz bands of the United States used different types of acoustic guitars. However, due to low sound compared with other instruments, their use is generally limited to the accompaniment.

Looking for how to resolve this issue, Lloyd Loar, an engineer of the Gibson guitar factory, began experimenting with magnets, and in 1924 designed a pill that could be coupled to a six-string traditional guitar. Thus, it was possible to convert the vibrations generated by the instrument body into electrical signals that were amplified through a loudspeaker.

The Gibson L-5, constructed in 1922, was one of the first amplified guitar. He had two small microphones attached to the box of an acoustic guitar and volume control buttons, so it actually was a guitar "electro".

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