Curiously, it does not look like musicians have been those that dreamed up the thought of an electrified instrument. Barely, it was the legions of newbie tinkerers who began taking apart products like the phone, radio, and phonograph and seeing what they could do. Among the makes use of they imagined now seem bizarre. A 1919 journal advert supplied a instrument for amplifying sounds, which, it mentioned, is likely to be used to amplify a violin—or to spy on people. One other magazine from 1922 touted an newbie-constructed “radio violin” : primarily a persist with a string and a telephone pickup associated to an amp and a steel horn. “Weak tones may be amplified by a radio loudspeaker,” the caption defined. Later that decade, various proto-rock-‘n’-rollers discovered that by shoving a phonograph needle into the highest of their acoustic guitar, they may get sound to come out of the speaker. … Read the rest
