
Curiously, it does not seem to be musicians have been the ones who dreamed up the thought of an electrified instrument. Fairly, it was the legions of novice tinkerers who started taking aside merchandise like the telephone, radio, and phonograph and seeing what they could do. Just a few of the makes use of they imagined now appear weird. A 1919 journal advert provided a device for amplifying sounds, which, it mentioned, may very well be used to amplify a violin—or to spy on individuals. Another magazine from 1922 touted an beginner-constructed “radio violin” : primarily a persist with a string and a phone pickup linked to an amp and a steel horn. “Weak tones will likely be amplified by a radio loudspeaker,” the caption explained. Later that decade, various proto-rock-‘n’-rollers found out that by shoving a phonograph needle into the highest of their acoustic guitar, they might get sound … Read the rest