| As with many inventions, the electric
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| | 1952. Expert guitarist Les Paul helped
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| guitar initially met with skepticism from
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| | publicize and design the Gibson guitars,
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| original performers as well as from
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| | which included his legendary Les Paul
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| guitar makers and traditional audiences.
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| | models. It was the mass production of
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| Country and blues players and jazz
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| | Fender and Gibson guitars that lowered
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| instrumentalists initially took to the
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| | the price and made them reachable by
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| variety of new tones and sounds offered
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| | teenagers across the country. Now any
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| by the electric guitar, as they explored
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| | teenager could envision themselves as
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| new sounds and found ways to change,
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| | being in a musical rebellion.In the
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| bend, and have longer sustained notes.In
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| | 1960s, many people thought that rock and
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| the 1950s, rock and roll found a new home
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| | roll would be a quick fad, but with the
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| in the electric guitar's greater volume
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| | Beatles and Beach Boys and other groups
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| and the driving tones that appealed to
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| | of the 1960s, rock and roll dominated the
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| teen audiences (who had newfound spending
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| | music and became powerfully rooted in the
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| dollars). While the electric guitar
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| | American culture.It was also in the 1960s
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| impacted other music, the electric guitar
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| | that guitarists found new sounds and most
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| was at the center of the cultural
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| | guitarists were using distortion and
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| rebellion that symbolized rock and roll.
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| | other special effects such as tremolo and
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| The new guitar "legend" was created: with
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| | reverb.Distortion and feedback became
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| slicked-back hair, a leather jacket, a
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| | commonplace with guitarists like Hendrix,
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| motorcycle, and "sizzling" electric
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| | Van Halen and Tom Scholz.In the early
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| guitar.The Spanish-styled solid-body
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| | 1970s, you also saw new guitar effects
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| guitar design became associated with rock
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| | such as phaser, flanger, compressor, tube
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| and roll. The earliest known commercially
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| | screamer, octaver, and many others
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| produced Spanish solid-body electric
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| | offering a wide range of sounds that
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| guitar is the 1939 Slingerland. Les Paul
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| | continue to be used to this day. And now
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| experimented with a similar design in
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| | you can get these effects built in to a
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| 1940. In 1947 Paul Bigsby teamed up with
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| | modeling amp and combine effects in a way
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| famed country singer Merle Travis to
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| | that they complement each other rather
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| produce a solid-body guitar that is very
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| | than competing with each other.The last
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| similar to the guitars used still to this
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| | few decades have also seen the rise of
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| day.But it was Leo Fender that especially
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| | the professional female guitarist.
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| revolutionized the electric guitar along
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| | Pioneers like Heart and Bonnie Raitt have
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| with his awesome line of amps. As a radio
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| | given women respect in an industry that
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| repairman, he designed great amps with a
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| | was traditionally male-dominated.The
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| highly desired tone. He was also the
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| | electric guitar has been around for sixty
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| first to successfully mass-produce and
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| | years. Even though the 1980s were heavily
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| market a Spanish-style solid-body
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| | dominated with synthesizers, the electric
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| electric guitar. The success of his
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| | guitar is still in all types of music and
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| Telecaster line and later Stratocaster
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| | is played and listened to by men and
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| line, inspired additional manufacturers
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| | women of every age.Copyright (c)
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| to start making their own models.Gibson
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| | 2006Jessica Deets writes about
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| was Fender's first major competitor in
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| | information interesting to help people.
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