Rickenbacker Electric Guitar
AllpartsBlack Treble/Bass Volume Knobs (2) With Silver Top for Rickenbacker®
Musical Instruments (Allparts)

AllpartsBlack Treble/Bass Tone Knobs (2) With Silver Top for Rickenbacker
Musical Instruments (Allparts)

RickenbackerRickenbacker 1964 365 6-string with Van Ghent Tuners
Musical Instruments (Rickenbacker)
  • 365 6-string 1964 1 of 14 made
  • Serial number DH166
  • Rickosound output, chekered bindings

RickenbackerRickenbacker 360/12 Fireglo 12-String Semi-hollow Electric Guitar
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List Price: $2,860.00
  • Semi-hollow acoustic body carved from single piece of maple
  • Two single pole vintage style "toaster" Rickenbacker pickups
  • Three-way pickup selector with five rotary controls

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The History of the Guitar

- By 13 year old Paul Markgraf---8th succeed term paper

There are innumerable different kinds of guitars. They deviate in sound, quality, and ability. I grasp how to play the guitar but I always wanted to remember their origin. I have unquestionable to break up the guitar into two categories: electric and acoustic.

The situation of the electric solid body guitar owes a large deal to the popularity of Hawaiian music in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Hawaiian guitars were unaccompanied instruments played with a metal slide. Electric Hawaiian guitars were the outset instruments that depended utterly on their sound being amplified electrically not fair acoustically.

A key figure was Adolph Rickenbacker, who to begin with made metal components for Dopera Brothers State Resonator Guitars. While at Jingoistic, Rickenbacker met George Beauchamp and Paul Barth who had been working together on the teaching of magnetic pick-up. Together they formed the Electro Requirements Company and in 1931 produced the earliest Hawaiian guitars. Their triumph prompted Gibson and others to start producing electric guitars.

In the 1940’s Gibson’s new electric models became securely established. People began to toil on ways of applying the solid consistency of the Hawaiian and steel guitars to symmetrical instruments. In 1944, Leo Fender, who ran a present repair shop, teamed up with Doc Kaufman, a ancient Rickenbacker employee. They started K & F Visitors and produced a series of steel guitars and amplifiers. Fender felt the pick-up magnets in use at the rhythm need not be so large. He incorporated a new pick-up, which he wanted to try in a fingerboard. Admitting that only meant to demonstrate the pick-up the guitar was some time in demand. 1946 saw the formation of Fender Electric Agency Company and the introduction of the Broadcaster.

At the very time Les Paul was working in the at any rate direction. Paul experimented with pick-ups throughout the 1930’s; he skilful feedback and resonance problems and...

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Music : The History of The Electric Guitar: How Music Was Changed
SkyNewswire.com (press release), Netherlands - Aug 18, 2008
In 1931 the Electro String Company was founded by Paul Barth, George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker, and developed the first electric guitars marketed to

Studying at school of rock gets kids performing onstage
Detroit Free Press, United States - Jul 23, 2008
Fender Stratocaster 6-string electric guitar, while Bubba Ayoub, 14, of Warren thumped his Rickenbacker bass guitar and teacher Brent Nagy looked on.


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Deep in the Shallows: The Classic Singles Collection
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Jul 30, 2008
It's not easy to discern why these hoary old champions of 12-string Rickenbacker guitars and highly elaborate production values have not scaled any

LISTENING STATION: Pleasant 'Dreams'
Washington Times, DC - Jul 21, 2008
The honeyed opening guitar hook is as catchy as anything on the album, but Mr. Weller shows off his maturity as a songwriter and arranger as the modest

The 411 Music Top 5 07.29.08 Top Prog Rock Bands
411mania.com, TX - Jul 28, 2008
Geddy playing a Rickenbacker bass (ala Chris Squire from Yes), Alex playing the hollow-bodied Gibson (ala Steve Howe from Yes) and Peart's massive drum kit

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