"Who invented the electric guitar?", then, is a loaded and slippery ... then the answer could reach back to the 1800s. If you mean the first model to come to market, then maybe it's the Stromberg ...

The Swiss-born entrepreneur invented the electric guitar in California alongside partner ... energetic and, at first, uniquely American style of music. "The guitar remains the primary sonic ...

Although it was not the first electric guitar ever invented, it was one of the newest electrified instruments to the music scene. Playing guitar is really a science. Here’s why: electric guitars ...

and the Les Paul line of guitars became commonplace among such musicians as Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page. Mr. Paul called his first solid-body guitar "the Log." It was made of a ...

The man whose name adorns Gibson’s signature electric invented something called ... and partnered with Les Paul on the first pressing of an electric guitar bearing his name (courtesy of ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, acquired an early prized piece of music memorabilia on Wednesday that helped inspire a powerful new American art form and reshape global pop culture.

The world’s first electric guitar had been invented. Or at least, nearly invented. It was almost too heavy to lift and had only one note but nonetheless, the teenager had proved it could be done.

Who invented it? How did it all start ... an Electric Hawaiian A-25 and a standard Electric Spanish, two of the first electric guitars made by Beauchamp. In the same month, the guitars were ...

Incidentally, the later years of electric guitar are no clearer. You think the obscure 1930s Slingerland Songster was the first solid-body electric? Others say it was Vivi-Tone, or maybe Ro-Pat-In.