Like putting a wash on or doing the hoovering, nobody likes changing their guitar strings but alas, it just has to be done.

“The first electric guitar came out the following year.” So was George the first actual musician - outside the R&D department of Rickenbacker and Dobro - to play and master a legitimate ...

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will have a massive effect on the playability of your electric guitar. For this reason, we'd always recommend trying out a few different sets, as you'd be surprised how much of a difference a change ...

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It was in 1937 that the first patent awarded for an electric guitar design was granted to G.D. Beauchamp, who would go on to be a co-founder of Rickenbacker. Elvis Presley exploded the popularity ...

when Dylan infamously opted for an electric guitar rather than acoustic, changing the sound of folk music as we knew it. Toward the end of 1965, Bloomfield traded the guitar to John Neuse ...