Folks, Paul Barth has an incredible history, right up there with Rickenbacker, Leo Fender, Les Paul etc, in fact they were all very close, Les Paul was a regular dinner guest at the Barth home.
FC Hall is quoted as saying about Barth “Barth was a very good fella and a good manager.”
Paul Barth designed all of the early 50's Rickenbacker guitars after FC Hall bought the company. He goes right back to the creation of the horseshoe pick up with his friend and drinking partner George Beauchamp.
Barth’s DNA can be see all over, Electro, Rickenbacker, Magnatone, Bartell, St George and probably other brands. He set up the early jigs for Leo Fender.
Not only did he co invent the pickup giving us the electric guitar, his guitars were played by The Beatles Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa Walter Becker John Paul Jones and many more. A guitar legend? Indeed, he should be considered one of the founding fathers of the electric guitar.
To update the records I have research much of Barth’s life with the support of the people who knew him best, family, friends and co workers.
If you are interested the story will be told in my book ‘Finding Fretless’, the story of George Harrison’s mad guitar
https://thisdayinmusicbooks.com/product ... -fretless/
Made in Japan is all I know. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
