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    Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. Rickenbacker is the first known maker of electric...
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    The Rickenbacker 325 is the first of the Capri series of hollow body guitars released in 1958 by Rickenbacker. The 325 was designed by Roger Rossmeisl...
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    Luthier (redirect from Violin maker)
    string instruments. The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for "lute". The term was originally used for makers of lutes...
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  • after F.C Hall took over Rickenbacker. The guitars were created by Roger Rossmeisl, a German guitar maker. The Rickenbacker model numbering system includes...
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    Harrison, Roger McGuinn made the Rickenbacker 12-string central to The Byrds' folk rock sound, further popularising the instrument. By the mid-1960s, most major...
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    Lap steel guitar (category Continuous pitch instruments)
    change as the style evolved. McAuliffe had two Rickenbackers, each tuned differently. The instrument's constraints caused leading steel guitarists to...
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    Semi-acoustic guitar (category String instrument construction)
    differences from Gibson models. Rickenbacker was also a prominent maker of the semi-hollow body guitar. Gibson, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and other companies still...
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    Pickup (music technology) (category Musical instrument parts and accessories)
    electrical string instrument with pickups, the "Frying Pan" slide guitar, was created by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker around 1931. Most electric...
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    Harrison's use of the Rickenbacker helped to popularize the model, and its jangly sound became so prominent that Melody Maker termed it the Beatles'...
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  • Ro-Pat-In Corporation (category American musical instrument makers)
    eventually develop into Rickenbacher and ultimately: Rickenbacker a leader manufacturer in musical instruments, who is still active today. Early examples from...
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    Resonator guitar (category Continuous pitch instruments)
    often used to refer to an instrument with a non-inverted cone, to distinguish these designs from the inverted-cone Dobro. Makers particularly used it for...
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    Guitar (category String instruments)
    The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held...
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    Electric guitar (category 1931 musical instruments)
    National Stringed Instrument Corporation, with Paul Barth, who was vice president. George Beauchamp, along with Adolph Rickenbacker, invented the electromagnetic...
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    Pedal steel guitar (category Amplified instruments)
    first steel guitar made by instrument maker Leo Fender in 1953. Fender relied on prominent performers to field test his instruments. Boggs was one of the first...
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  • Leo Fender (category American musical instrument makers)
    player who had worked for Rickenbacker, which had been building and selling lap steel guitars for a decade. While with Rickenbacker, Kauffman had invented...
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    Samick Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼익악기KRX: 002450, also known as Samick) is a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1958...
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  • II Peavey Penco Petros PRS RainSong Ramírez Recording King Reverend Rickenbacker Robin Ruokangas Samick Sadowsky Santa Cruz Schecter Seagull Shergold...
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    Steel guitar (category Continuous pitch instruments)
    called the "Rickenbacker Electro A–22", an electric lap steel guitar produced from 1931 to 1939. It was the first electric stringed instrument of any kind...
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    Musical Instrument Professional. Archived from the original on 14 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014. Smith 1987, p. 219. "Vintage Vault: 1964 Rickenbacker 325"...
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    Martin & Company Dreadnought Gibson J-45 Ovation Roundback Gibson ES-335 Rickenbacker 360 (Both 12-string and 6-string models) Gretsch White Falcon Fender...
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    Epiphone (category Mandolin makers)
    Epiphone (/ˌɛ.pə.foʊn/) is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios...
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  • Roger Rossmeisl (category Guitar makers)
    of 52. Rickenbacker Combo 800 Rickenbacker Combo 600 Rickenbacker 4000 Bass Rickenbacker 4001 Bass Rickenbacker 325 Rickenbacker 330 Rickenbacker 330/12...
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    Console steel guitar (category Articles with MusicBrainz instrument identifiers)
    amount of disagreement about the preferred terms for non-pedal instruments. Some makers and authorities do not use the term "console steel guitar" at all...
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    C. F. Martin & Company (category Ukulele makers)
    form) was a relatively new instrument, and most guitar makers were members of the Cabinet Makers' Guild. However, the Violin Makers' Guild claimed exclusive...
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  • pioneering guitar manufacturers including Rickenbacker, Gibson and Fender. In the late 1930s Rickenbacker produced the first commercial batch of electric...
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    The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers. Fender...
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  • Beltona Resonator Instruments is an English/New Zealand musical instruments manufacturing company currently based in Ōpunake, New Zealand. Since its foundation...
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    Honeyman-Scott also credited Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello with their "big jangly" Rickenbacker-influenced guitar sound. During his tenure with the Pretenders, Dave...
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  • 2021 the Kelly brothers published a history of Rickenbacker musical instruments entitled Rickenbacker Guitars - Out of the Fryingpan Into the Firego via...
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    the bridge) Epiphone SG Special 1961 50th Anniversary Ibanez Jetking Rickenbacker 330 Gibson ES-335 (Ebony finish)[citation needed] - Bridge pickup was...
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