First electric guitar

Let’s rock!

As much as we would all like to take this baby home, we must meet her parents 😀

So let’s move back to the pass.

First electric guitar was invented along with first pickup. No, not along with a car 😀

A pickup (music technology) is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

First pickup was invented in 1924 by american inventor Lloyd Loar that worked for Gibson, well-known сompany that produced high-end musical equipment.

Actually, the invention of pickups has given a great boost to many genres of music, even in the beggining. Thus, in 1930-1940 the first use of pickups in some jazz bands made a revolution in music sphere in the middle of century.

It turned out that the distortion of sound, originally considered as a defect, can generate an infinite number of previously unknown timbres.

Today there is a lot of types of pickups that was improved for any generes of music. So in the future I wiil tell a bit more about different types of pickups.

See you soon 🙂