home.īeauchamp first conceived of a guitar fitted with a phonograph-like amplifying horn, and asked John Dopyera to create a prototype. His search led to John Dopyera, a violin repairman with a shop fairly close to Beauchamp’s L.A. Beauchamp saw one of these and went looking for someone to build him one, too. Several inventors had already tried to build louder stringed instruments by adding megaphone-like amplifying horns to them. George Beauchamp was a vaudeville performer, violinist, and steel guitarist who, like most of his fellow acoustic guitarists in the pre-electric-guitar days of the 1920s, was searching for a way to make his instrument cut through an orchestra. It all began in 1920s Los Angeles, a city fast becoming the entertainment capital of the world. During the early 1940s, Rickenbacker amps were sometimes repaired by Leo Fender, whose repair shop evolved into the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company.
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Lansing of the Lansing Manufacturing Company designed the speaker in the Rickenbacker professional model. Shortly thereafter, design engineer Ralph Robertson further developed the amplifiers, and by the 1940s at least four different Rickenbacker models were made available. A Los Angeles radio manufacturer named Van Nest designed the first Electro String production-model amplifier. By the time production ceased in 1939, several thousand “frying pans” had been produced.Įlectro String also sold amplifiers to go with their electric guitars. They had a single pickup with a steel cover that arched over the strings. Nicknamed “frying pans” because of their long necks and circular bodies, the instruments were the first solid-bodied electric guitars, though they were a lap-steel type. They chose the brand name Rickenbacher (later changed to Rickenbacker), though early examples bear the brand name Electro. These instruments had been designed by Beauchamp, assisted at the National String Instrument Corporation by Paul Barth and Harry Watson. The company was founded in 1931 as the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (ElectRo-Patent-Instruments) by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in order to sell electric Hawaiian guitars. Beauchamp, this pioneering firm produced “Rickenbacker Electro Instruments”, the first modern electric guitars. Founded in 1931 by Adolph Rickenbacker and George D. The Rickenbacker International Corporation (RIC) grew out of the first company founded for the sole purpose of creating and manufacturing fully electric musical instruments and amplifiers-the Los Angeles-based Electro String Instrument Corporation. The company became the world’s first to produce electric guitars and eventually produced an iconic range of electric guitars and bass guitars. Rickenbacker, also known as Rickenbacher in their earliest days, is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.
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