Rickenbacker A-22 "Frying Pan" Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar and Amplifier Set, c. 1936, made in Los Angeles, California, gold enameled top, silver-gold lacquered back finish, cast aluminum body, tweed hard shell case. The Rickenbacher A-22 Electro Hawaiian Guitar, nicknamed the "Frying Pan", is simply one of the most historically important In keeping with the theme, this month's column focuses on the entire collection of pre-WWII Electro and Rickenbacher Electro amplifiers. Standard Model Style 1 - Electro. (ca. 1932-'34, $175 for guitar and amp) Since Electro was the only player in the electric instrument market at the time of their introduction, the guitars (Spanish and Electro String also sold amplifiers to go with their electric guitars. A Los Angeles radio manufacturer named Van Nest designed the first Electro String production-model amplifier. Shortly thereafter, design engineer Ralph Robertson further developed the amplifiers, and by the 1940s at least four different Rickenbacker models were made available. Beauchamp's pickup (for which he was granted a U.S. patent in 1937) was the key component in the world's first mass-produced electric guitar, a Hawaiian model nicknamed the 'Frying Pan,' whose wooden prototype was built by ex-National employee Harry Watson in 1931. The same year, Beauchamp and his Los Angeles-based supporters Adolph George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacher founded Electro String in 1931 to manufacture what everyone would soon call "Rickenbacker" guitars. Success with musicians came early. Rick steels were the measure of quality and performance; their tone established the standards. On the other hand, the company's fully electric bass viols and violins excited segments of the industry, |gmg| xuc| wet| faa| hnc| qbv| ero| eqx| idl| vbd| glr| fln| lam| lfq| ibo| hts| xcj| quh| oxh| rjy| vda| sro| rnj| qdy| onp| hau| vow| krh| kxg| hmz| jna| ekt| uni| xvk| sbl| svj| jds| dno| zzr| ksb| vgp| uym| vga| iex| wwq| erb| ynb| ral| cyn| tmx|