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    electric guitar's unsung hero". Guitar. Retrieved August 23, 2022. Bigsby guitars, producer of the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece. History of Bigsby guitars. Vibramate...
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    Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex-Gibson...
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  • Bigsby on his 1958 Gibson Flying V electric guitar. The Bigsby remains popular, especially on hollow-body guitars. It's available as a factory-fitted option...
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  • mislabeled as a tremolo arm) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars. Paul built an early steel guitar for Southern California steel guitarist Earl "Joaquin"...
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    acoustic guitars, bass amplifiers and public address equipment; however, it is best known for its solid-body electric guitars and bass guitars, particularly...
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    of the steel guitar. The pedals operated a mechanical linkage to apply tension to raise the pitch of the strings. Bigsby built guitars incorporating...
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    There are several types of electric guitar. Early forms were hollow-body semi-acoustic guitars, while solid body guitars developed later. String configurations...
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  • (1899–1968), American guitar maker, inventor and motorcycle racer/mechanic Bigsby Electric Guitars, a company named after Paul Bigsby Bigsby vibrato tailpiece...
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    design for the pedal action, greatly improving it. Bigsby, working alone in his shop, made guitars for leading players of the day, including Joaquin Murphey...
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    is the first known maker of electric guitars, with a steel guitar in 1932, and produces a range of electric guitars and basses. Adolph Rickenbacher and...
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    types of electric guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars (used in jazz guitar, blues and rockabilly) and solid-body guitars, which are widely...
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    mounted tailpiece, stoptail bridge, or Bigsby vibrato tailpiece 14th-fret and set-in neck join The archtop guitar is often credited to Orville Gibson, whose...
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  • Kaman, still an avid guitar player, became interested in making guitars. From 1966 to 2007, Ovation guitars, and later on Adamas guitars, were a brand of...
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    was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie...
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    existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson. Today, the company mass-produces its own line of electric and acoustic guitars, basses,...
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    bodies and necks for Kramer Guitars and other manufacturers were using ESP as an OEM such as Robin Guitars, Schecter Guitar Research and DiMarzio. Many...
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    Paul Custom (with Bigsby tremolo) – stolen in 1970. Page ran an ad requesting the return of this highly modified instrument but the guitar was not recovered...
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  • electric guitars, bass guitars, and acoustic guitars. The company also distributes resonators, basses, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, amplifiers, guitar cases...
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    multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes...
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    American guitar manufacturing company founded by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Dale Hyatt in the late 1970s. G&L produces electric guitars and basses...
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  • brand of guitars sold by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Jackson was originally an independent manufacturer of electric guitars and electric...
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  • Charvel (redirect from Charvel Guitars)
    Charvel decided to begin assembling complete guitars on the advice of Grover Jackson. Charvel guitars were assembled from wood parts made by Boogie Bodies...
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    the first mass-produced electric solid-body guitars. Due to their versatility, Les Paul electric guitars have been used in a wide range of music genres...
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    pedal used by Jimi Hendrix, and a series of innovative electric guitars and bass guitars. Since 1992, Vox has been owned by the Japanese electronics firm...
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    for acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, Takamine produced a limited run of high quality solid body electric guitars in the early to mid 1980s.[citation...
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  • double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top "horn" shape for balance. "Stratocaster" and "Strat" are trademark terms belonging to Fender. Guitars that duplicate...
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  • Tacoma manufactured mainly acoustic guitars, although its product range extended to basses and mandolins. Tacoma Guitars began as a division of Young Chang...
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    Paul Reed Smith Guitars, also known as PRS Guitars or simply PRS, is an American guitar and amplifier manufacturer located in Stevensville, Maryland....
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    acoustic guitars and semi-hollow electric guitars. It is one of the largest manufacturers of acoustic guitars in the United States and sells guitars in 65...
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    Quebec, Canada. Godin Guitars makes instruments under several different labels. Norman makes entry- to pro-level acoustic guitars. Art & Lutherie makes...
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