[Simulated (OP)]

Just wondering since I've gotts one.

[turnipsock]

wasn't it Adolf Rickenbacker?

[Simulated (OP)]

I never heard of him.

[turnipsock]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker Guitars were used by John Lennon who was part of a beat combo in the 60's.

[rosalind dna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker Guitars were used by John Lennon who was part of a beat combo in the 60's.

Such as the Beatles, Turnipsock?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_beatles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon
http://www.rickenbacker.com/history_early.asp

[Simulated (OP)]

Thank youu for the answers.

[JimBob]

Is an electrical stringed instrument with 4 strings a guitar? Or a banjo, violin, viola, etc.?

[Simulated (OP)]

The only one I know of the top of my head is a Electric Bass Guitar



Its got bigger strings that make the sound lower of course. Its just mainly to keep a beat.

I'm not sure about any other electric 4 stinged intruments

[Simulated (OP)]

Alright noww who invented the gutiar PICKS?

[BenV]

Its just mainly to keep a beat.

I know a lot of bassists who would strongly disagree with that comment!

[Simulated (OP)]

Yes, but its true. Only a few times can you actually HEAR the bass and let alone let it have a good rythm, its possible, but I see it very rarely

[DoctorBeaver]

Yes, but its true. Only a few times can you actually HEAR the bass and let alone let it have a good rythm, its possible, but I see it very rarely

Absolute twaddle!

Listen to McCartney, John Entwhistle (The Who), Mark King (Level 42), Flea (RHCP), Roy Babbington (Soft Machine), or great session bassists such as Herbie Flowers or Louis St Brown. Or, for the best ever, listen to ME on my amazing track "I Love My Jem 7"  []

In theory, any type of stringed instrument can be electric (although I've never come across an electric sitar or balalaika).

Various people have patented different types of guitar pick but I don't think anyone in particular is credited with having invented the very first one. Picks were used in medieval times (made from shell or wood) to play lutes etc. I don't know if they were used in places like ancient Rome or Greece, but there is no reason why they shouldn't have been. I seem to remember hearing that they were used thousands of years ago in China - but I wouldn't swear to that. As such, it's unlikely you could ever track down the first person to ever use 1.

[DoctorBeaver]

To add to my list of bass players:

Kool (Kool And The Gang)
Sly Stone (Sly And The Family Stone)
Nile Rogers (session bassist, producer and creator of the Philadelphia sound)

[i am bored]

heres some to add to the list

Frederic Leclercq -- dragonforce

phoenix -- linkin park

Ryan Kienle -- matchbook romance

[DoctorBeaver]

We haven't yet mentioned that maestro of the electric bass Sgt. Floyd Pepper - the bass player in The Muppet Show!  []

[DoctorBeaver]

But... back to the original question.

No-one really knows who invented the electric guitar. Adolf Rickenbacker was the self-proclaimed "Father of the electric guitar", but there are others who also lay claim to having invented it.

George Beauchamp was a guitarist who played Hawaiian music. He is said to have made the first electric guitar on his dining room table.

Lloyd Loar, who worked for Gibson, developed a pickup as early as 1923. This type of pickup was used on the first commercially advertised electric guitar which was made by Stromberg-Voisinet in 1929. In 1933 Loar himself began marketing electric guitars under the Vivi-Tone label.

Les Paul began experimenting with electrical amplification of guitars in 1929.

Rickenbacker made the first commercially viable electric guitar. The company was founded by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker. This guitar was an electro-Hawaiian guitar that resembled a banjo with its round body (it was named The Frying Pan). The pickup, made by Beauchamp, consisted of 2 U magnets placed together to form an oval with the strings running through the middle. The coil was placed under the strings.

[LeeE]

Is an electrical stringed instrument with 4 strings a guitar? Or a banjo, violin, viola, etc.?

Banjos rely upon the skin stretched across the top to get their characteristic timbre and envelope, so a solid banjo wouldn't really work.  Banjos have been 'electrified' though, both by using piezo bridges or by attaching contact mikes to the skin.  Violins & violas etc. are bowed instead of plucked, but otherwise they're the same as guitars.

[ivanko007]

you may want to take a look at jet harris on youtube, he's probably the greatest precision abassist of  all time

[ukmicky]

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[Don_1]

wasn't it Adolf Rickenbacker?

I never heard of him.

Never heard of the Rickenbacker?

For you Americans, it was the favourite of John C Fogarty (Credence Clearwater Revival)