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.

 

 

Did You Know This?

• Leo Fender wasn’t a guitarist but a saxophonist. The first product that he manufactured was an amplifier. The aesthetics of Fender’s first amplifier still very much mirrors that of the amps out on the market today.

 

• The technical denomination of the pick is ‘Plectrum’ from the Greek plektron meaning “thing to strike with”.

 

• Franz Shuber composed on a guitar hung over his bed as he couldn’t meet the expense of buying a piano.

 

• Londoner guitar fan Chris Black had a wedding ceremony to marry his melodious and loyal Fender Stratocaster.

 

• Jimi Hendrix played right-handed guitars, left-handed. In his teenage years, he got expelled from his high-school for holding a white girl’s hand during class.