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Electric Guitars for Sale
The modern electric guitar is everything from a musical instrument to a legendary icon, the instrument has evolved to become one of the most widely played variations of the guitar by hobbyists and one of the most loved by musicians everywhere. It has found a place in all styles of music from it's original use in jazz, through to blues, rock and roll, country, ambient, rock, metal, pop, and even classical. The electric guitar is able to make a sound by using an electro-magnetic pickup that converts the vibrations from the steel cored strings into an electrical current which can be amplified. This means of transferring the sound from the plucked string not only allows for far greater volume but also means that the signal from the electric guitar can be electronically altered to achieve various tonal effects
prior to being fed into the amplifier. The need for an amplified guitar became apparent during the big band era, as jazz orchestras of the 1930s and 1940s increased in size, with larger brass sections. Initially, electric guitars used in jazzarchtop acoustic guitar bodies consisted primarily of hollow to which electromagnetic transducers had been attached.
Les Paul is often credited with the construction of the first real electric guitar; he experimented with microphones mounted on guitars in order to boost volume. Some of the earliest types of electric guitar were manufactured as far back as 1931 by Electro String Instrument Corporation under the direction of Adolph Rickenbacker
and George Beauchamp. The earliest documented use of the electric guitar in performance
was during October 1932 in Wichita, Kansas by guitarist and bandleader
Gage Brewer who had obtained two instruments directly from George Beauchamp of Los Angeles, California. Brewer publicized them in an article appearing in the Wichita Beacon, October 2, 1932 and through a Halloween performance later that month. The first recording of an electric guitar was by jazz guitarist George Barnes who recorded two songs in Chicago on March 1st, 1938: Sweetheart Land and It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame. The electric guitar has gone from strength to strength ever since and has been modified in seven, four, eight, twelve, nine and any other possible string combination you can think of. The pickup technology from the electric guitar has also forced a revolution in other instruments such as the violin, with "electric" versions of many instruments using bar magnet pickups now being available.
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