Guitar trivia

 

 v     The first successfully produced electric guitar was a hollow Rickenbacker. Charlie Christian is claimed to be the very first electric guitarist of that, an all, time.

 

 

 v     Guitar string maker and guitar-product innovator Ernie Ball, didn’t play the conventional guitar but its unusual variation, the steel. Ball was a steal worker who found more excitement in the steel and science of the instrument than in playing it himself.

 

 

 v     Lester Polkfus (a.k. a. Les Paul) is the pioneer of the development of the solid-body guitar. He designed in 1941 one of the first, a prototype named the ‘the Log’ due to its heavy, rustic dimensions.

 

 

 v     Broadcaster was the original name of the Telecaster, but since the Broadcaster name was already being used for a drum-kit, Fender was required to modify his model label.

 

 

 v     The smallest guitar measures 10 micrometers long.

 

 

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