
Curiously, it does not appear to be musicians have been those who dreamed up the thought of an electrified instrument. Slightly, it was the legions of beginner tinkerers who began taking aside products like the telephone, radio, and phonograph and seeing what they might do. Among the many makes use of they imagined now seem weird. A 1919 journal advert provided a device for amplifying sounds, which, it mentioned, is perhaps used to amplify a violin—or to spy on folks. One different journal from 1922 touted an beginner-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, numerous proto-rock-‘n’-rollers came upon that by shoving a phonograph needle into the very best of their acoustic guitar, they may get sound to come out of … Read the rest