Adolph Rikenbekerom and George Beauchamp, in 1931, built the first electric guitar. Since then, the electric guitar has taken the music industry by storm. Musicians can play blues, rock, pop music, or jazz using an electric guitar. The electric guitar must be plugged into an electric amplifier for sound to be heard as the guitar sound is produced by the amplifier and not the guitar itself. Most of the electric guitars have a solid body, use steel strings with no sound holes. The strings used in the electric guitar are thinner than the acoustic guitar.
Guitar players regularly looked for ways to boost the sound of guitars in the early days. This journey for guitars producing louder noise intensified during the 1920s when big music bands and music recording companies were all interested in inventing loud guitars.
At the end of the 1940s, Leo Fender, a radio repairman, introduced a mass-produced Spanish-style solid-body electric guitar. This guitar model was replicated by Gibson, which Les Paul himself endorsed in 1952.
The popularity of the electric guitar rose during the 1950s and 1960s when it became the most important musical instrument in pop music. The electric guitar was a musical instrument that was capable of producing varieties of sounds and styles. It was instrumental in advancing pop music, rock music, electric blues, rock and roll, and different other categories of music.
In the 21st century, electric guitar features in almost all types of music played around the globe and are loved by all.
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