Music Electric is a photograph by David and Carol Kelly which was uploaded on February 19th, 2014.
Music Electric
By the end of the 1930s, electronic amplification proved to be one of the most successful innovations for building a louder guitar, despite the... more
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Music Electric
Artist
David and Carol Kelly
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Photograph
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By the end of the 1930s, electronic amplification proved to be one of the most successful innovations for building a louder guitar, despite the misgivings of some traditionalists about the new technology. Country and jazz guitarists were among the first to champion the electric sound.
Around 1931 George Beauchamp, working with Adolph Rickenbacker, produced an electromagnetic pickup in which a current passed through a coil of wire wrapped around a magnet, creating a field which amplified the strings' vibrations. Introduced on a lap-steel known as the Frying Pan, the pickup made this guitar the first commercially viable electric.
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February 19th, 2014
