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To: WesternCulture

I believe that the guy who invented the electric guitar was an American. Does Les Paul ring a bell?


102 posted on 09/11/2014 5:54:53 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: HandyDandy

America constructed the first electrically amplified guitar. Period.

This was back in 1931.

Swedish legendary guitar manufacturer Hagström has been around since 1925 and already from the start they realized what electricity could do for the performance of this instrument. They experimented some with electricty more or less from the start, but it’s not fair to say they invented the electric guitar. Around 1930, the company of Hagström was chiefly occupied with making accordions even if some employees happened to have other plans.

Anyhow, we Swedes know how to play the guitar. Jimi Hendrix and Kirk Hammett impress me, but they are not Yngwie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pc9C_D2ibM


126 posted on 09/11/2014 7:03:46 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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