Sidney Wilson's Electric Guitar

He had a solution to the inferior sound quality of electric guitars, reasoning that a single-coil magnetic pickup for each string would even the loudness of the strings. Electric stringed instruments have existed since the 1920s, but they were acoustic guitars that relied on microphones or single electromagnetic bars that picked up vibrations collectively from all the strings. The cryptic answer is William Sidney Wilson, one of the fathers of the modern electric guitar....

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Epiphone Lefty LP Special II Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar ...

The Epiphone Special II is a great way for beginners to get started on guitar with real, Les Paul tone, but seasoned pros love the Special II because it’s a great-sounding, workhorse guitar that lets them leave their more expensive axes at home. Like all of our electric guitars, it comes standard-equipped with 500K Ohms potentiometers, our own heavy-duty 3-way pickup selector toggle switch and non-rotating heavy duty output jack....

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Doc Watson Kicks Off 2010-2011 Down Home Concert Series

This year, he returns to the PineCone stage with his long-time friend and collaborator David Holt and his grandson Richard Watson to present Hills of Home , which combines hot flat-picking tunes, slow romantic ballads, gutsy blues numbers,... Born in Deep Gap, NC in 1923, Watson, who learned to play guitar and banjo as a child, has received numerous honors during his music...

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Starting a Guitar Collection?
[2010-04-08 09:36:02]

I'm starting one. I already have a crappy acustic, a red Ibanez, a White Dinky Jackson. a Squier Bass, a Zakk Wylde Signature Bulls Eye Les Paul and a Gibson SG Special. I'd figure since I have some extra money I'd start a collection. What should I add

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The Fender Electric Guitar Book, A Complete History of Fender Instruments
192 pages
The Fender Electric Guitar Book, A Complete History of Fender Instruments

INSTRUMENT OWNERS Guitars photographed came from the collections of the .... SPECIAL THANKS to Paul Day in his polo neck for supreme work in updating the ...

Billboard
124 pages
Billboard

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Mother Jones Magazine
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Mother Jones Magazine

What is the Xandria Collection? It is a very, very special collection of sensual ... that they really don't want a color TV or a nice electric guitar. ...