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Source:

"The Earliest Days of the Electric Guitar." RIC

            Rickenbacker. RIC Rickenbacker, n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2014.

Name: Adolph Rickenbacker

Born: April 1, 1886 Basel, Switzerland

Died: March 1976

        Adolph Rickenbacker was the first person that invented the electronic guitar in from 1920's-1930's. He was born on 1 April, 1886 in Switzerland in the city of Basel. He died on March 1976. In about 1931 he invented the electro stringed instrument in Los Angeles. In 1920  George Beauchamp in his business planned to improved guitar. He also planned to build the instrument louder and build like megaphone such as amplify to make the instrument has louder voice. For the first experiment it was a failure and he already create more failure guitar in the shop. For the second trial he took like tri-cone prototype and the Sol Hoopii Trio the famous Hawaiian group and he is very interested about their guitar. 

          His production with guitar made from metal will be began. He began to purchase some equitement and he got helped by his highly skilled engineer that experience with manufacturing techniques friends. His name is Adolph Rickenbacker. With the ide to improve the guitar Rickenbancker has an idea to create electric guitar for some years. Although his not studying about electrics but he stuyding about the PA system and microphones. Someday he created single guitar string to test it with Brunswick phonograph. With his big project he began to study more aobut electronics to help him easier to create the electric guitar. In 1930 people already familiar with electricty and after many month spending to do trial an error he developed 2 horseshoe magnets. His goal is that to transfer the string vibartion to the phongraph.  So he create 6 small circle of the horseshoe magnets for each string of the guitar. he succeed with his prototype to tranfer the vibration of the stringGeorge called his friend Harry Watson that skilled with crafting something. He called him to create the wooden neck and the body for the elctric guitar. After spend many hours the shape of the guitar already formed and called as "Frying Pan." Putting all the thing together between the body and the prototype the electric guitar was born. The "Frying Pan" guitar called Rickenbacker because he is the one that came out with the idea to tranfering the vibration of the string to the electrical generator phongraph. That succesfully amplifying the guitar and make it produce loud sound. 

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