Curiously, it does not appear like musicians have been those that dreamed up the idea of an electrified instrument. Slightly, it was the legions of newbie tinkerers who started taking apart merchandise just like the cellphone, radio, and phonograph and seeing what they may do. Among the many makes use of they imagined now appear bizarre. A 1919 magazine advert supplied a instrument for amplifying sounds, which, it stated, may be used to amplify a violin—or to spy on people. One different journal from 1922 touted an beginner-constructed “radio violin” : mainly a persist with a string and a phone pickup related to an amp and a metal horn. “Weak tones can be amplified by a radio loudspeaker,” the caption defined. Later that decade, a variety of proto-rock-‘n’-rollers discovered that by shoving a phonograph needle into the best of their acoustic guitar, they could get sound to come back out … Read the rest
