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Beauchamp needed a guitar that could be heard over other instruments when played in an orchestra. Dopyera invented a guitar with three aluminum cones called resonators (similar to diaphragms inside a speaker) mounted beneath the bridge, which was much louder than the regular acoustic guitar. The tone of the guitar was rich and metallic.
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1887 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American production engineer and machinist who, together with George Beauchamp, created the first electric string instrument, and co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company, also with Beauchamp. [1] Rickenbacker was born in Basel, Switzerland as Adolf Rickenbacher. He immigrated ...
Organs invented in antiquity, but not common in Europe. [65] Under reigns of Pepin the short and Charlemagne, the organ was re-introduced to Europe, starting in about 757 A.D. [65] Theophilus's organ in the 11th century A.D., used bellows activated by body weight. [66] That was refined to make all air from three bellows enter into a common ...
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.
The Electronde, invented in 1929 by Martin Taubman, has an antenna for pitch control, a handheld switch for articulation and a foot pedal for volume control. [83] The Croix Sonore (Sonorous Cross), is based on the theremin. It was developed by Russian composer Nicolas Obouchov in France, after he saw Lev Theremin demonstrate the theremin in 1924.
The Stratocaster was the first electric guitar on the market to offer three pickups and a "tremolo" arm (which was actually used for vibrato, not tremolo), which became widely used by guitarists. [2] The three pickups could be selected using the standard three-way switch to give the guitar different sounds and options by using the "neck ...
The earliest known symphony featuring a trombone section is Symphony in C minor by Anton Zimmermann. [11] The date is uncertain but it is most probably from the peak of the composer's activity in the 1770s. The earliest confident date for introducing the trombone to the symphony is therefore Zimmermann's death in 1781.
The "Viennese guitar" as built by Johann Georg Stauffer is a gut string guitar with a curved back, narrower waist and bridge pins. In 1822 Stauffer and Johann Ertl received an imperial commission for improvement of the guitar, focusing on the extension of the fingerboard , above (not attached to) the soundboard , the development of machine ...