The Evolution of the Guitar in the Music Industry
The electric guitar has played a tremendous role in the music industry. Various guitar players have literally changed the genres of music because of their style and originality. The history of the electric guitar started in the early 1930's by a man named George Beauchamp. He began looking for new ways to increase the volume intensity of the guitar. He knew that passing a wire through a magnetic field would produce a change in the intensity, which in turn could be used to create a changing electric current in a properly coupled coil of wire. This was also the same way that electric motors, generators, phonograph needles, acoustical speakers, and many other products were being developed and marketed at this time.
George Beauchamp has been experimenting with the development of the electric guitar since 1925. He started practicing by simply using a phonograph needle to produce a very thin string, and then placed it on a piece of......
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