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Vintage 1950's Old Kraftsman electric bass guitar made in USA Reverb
In fact, the Fender Precision Electric Bass Guitar, a staple for bass players in the 1950s, is still one of the most popular bass guitars in use today. Other popular guitar variations from the 1950s include the mandolin, the banjo, the ukulele and the lap steel guitar. Slide guitar playing was very popular as well.
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Fender Stratocaster History The 1950s Fender Guitars
A countdown of the best guitar songs and riffs of the 1950s including songs by Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bo Diddley, Johnny Cash, and more. Simon Mor.
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1950s Harmony H50 Vintage Archtop Electric Guitar Gibson P13 Sunburst
Let's state first that we're only interested in and writing about electric guitars manufactured from the 1950's through the very early 1970's. We consider this period to be the most significant in the history of vintage electric guitar collecting for these low-end beauties.
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1950 National 1111 Aristocrat Hollowbody Jumbo Electric Guitar
Gibson. Gretsch. Harmony. WFT/Ludwig. Hohner. Martin. Shure. Although many improvements were made in recording equipment and instruments alike in the 1950s, it paled in comparison to the inventiveness that was to come in the 1960s. Learn more about 1950s instruments by reading the very interesting text in the vintage catalog pictures below.
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Gibson ES5 1950s Electric Guitar Owned By Ray Benson Of Reverb
The 1950s laid the groundwork for the explosion of guitar solos in the 1960s. Solos in the 50s were relatively short.. Cochran played all the guitars on the song that ended up on several international charts at the time. The song later gained greater fame through hit versions by Blue Cheer (1968) and The Who (1970). The song has also been.
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1950's Vintage Silvertone by Kay Guitar 57A 1381 RARE! Guitar
During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in popular music. [1] It has evolved into an instrument that is capable of a multitude of sounds and styles in genres ranging from pop and rock to folk to country music, blues and jazz.
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1950's Vintage Kay "Thin Twin" Double Pickup Electric Guitar Electric
John Smith Hurt, (July 3, 1893, U.S.—November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country-blues singer and guitarist who first recorded in the late 1920s but whose greatest fame and influence came when he was rediscovered in the early 1960s at the height of the American folk music revival.
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Used Gibson Les Paul Standard 1950S Neck Solid Body Electric Guitar
1. Scotty Moore's schizophrenic solo on Elvis Presley's "Too Much" (1957). Of the 11 Elvis songs to hit #1 during the 50s, this one contains the craziest guitar work. The song is based on a 12-bar blues progression, and the solo starts out well enough with some aggressive energy and a slightly dirty tone (distortion not yet being a thing).
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Image result for kay kraft 1950s electric Electricity, Kraft
In 1928, instrument makers Stromberg-Voisinet created the first commercially produced electric guitar, four years after Gibson fitted an electromagnetic device to violas and basses that picked up.
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1950s Harmony H50 Vintage Archtop Electric Guitar Gibson P13 Sunburst
The Century was an archtop electric produced by Epiphone starting in 1939. After the Gibson takeover in 1957, the model was continued in a somewhat altered format. In 1959 a P-90 pickup replaced the earlier Epiphone-built New York pickups. Years of Production: 1939 - 1970Body Style:&nbs.
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Classic Vibe 1950S Precision Bass Electric Bass Guitar Guitar Center
Electric and Acoustic Favourite Guitar Songs from the 1950s and 1960sVintage Music on LP Records of the 1950s and 1960sListen to the classic timeless music f.
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1950s Vega E202 Hollowbody Electric Guitar
ES-225 neck profiles and frets evolved throughout the 1950s, and they tracked the Les Paul models very closely. Besides the buttons, the Kluson tuners are identical, too, so that leaves the thinline body as the only significant point of difference.
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1950s Harmony H44 Stratotone Electric Guitar
Fender was small in the early 1950s, but clearly going places, and it's possible that Leo Fender turned his attention in earnest to a new electric guitar model to succeed the Telecaster and compete with more upscale competitors as early as 1951. Work on elements such as new pickups and a new bridge was certainly well under way by late 1952.
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1950s Guitars Pictures & History
1950s Inspired by the vintage finds of the golden era of electric guitar making, the 1950s Series offers features and sonic capabilities of those memorable instruments but with modern day appointments and production techniques. All models feature an exotic wood top and contoured arm cut, master volume and master tone controls.
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1950's Gibson ES295 Archtop Hollowbody Electric Guitar Guitar
But by the end of the '50s, guitarists were beginning to consider the solid body guitar as its own animal - the boundaries of guitar sound were expanding. Just about every musical icons of the '60s played their first notes on Silvertone guitars in the 1950s. Jimi Hendrix named his 1956 Silvertone "Betty Jean," after his girlfriend.
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1950s Vega E50 Hollowbody Electric Guitar
About This Listing. Grab yourself a slice of guitar history with this Gibson ES-125 from 1950s! A true classic, countless musicians have played the ES-125, from Bill Frisell to Joe Pass to Tracy Chapman. With double P90 pickups and no cutaway, this thinline electric archtop was Gibson's successor to the ES-100, eventually discontinued in the 1970s.