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Evan,

You never asked me what I was doing outside the palace. Never mind I'll tell you anyway.

My wife and I were heading to Jerusalem to find God and have a word or two with him but we thought we would stop off in London and go to the palace and have tea with Her Royal Highness first. As it turns out both had very busy schedules and we never got to meet either of them..........pity really. We did see the Queen though, or so my wife thinks. That made the trip all worthwhile.

Back to regular programming. So tell me who was the first inventor of the first electric guitar and what was the genre of first known song that was played using one on a recorded work?

The first part of the question is easy the second part not so easy.

winston wrote:, making a mechanical waving movement. :

I bet i know what movement the arm was making. (OI Medway out my road)
Paul H. Tutmarc.Was the genre of music Death Metal.

scotty wrote:Paul H. Tutmarc.Was the genre of music Death Metal.

Didn't the death metal heads invent just about every primitive gadget known to man? The used to be called the Vikings IIRC.......

Wrong answer. Paul Tutmarc has never been officially credited with the feat probably and I am surmising, it's because his particular invention was actually a Hawaiian guitar. Someone else that you have heard a lot about was credited with the invention. So try again.

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Do Ron and Kenny know enough Tom Waits covers to keep up with Rod?

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OK ive cheated a bit

At the NC State Engineering Fair in 1940, first prize went to NCSU physics professor Sidney Wilson for his invention of the world's first fully electric guitar. The instrument was also the first to have single-string pick-up. Clearly the sensation of the fair, the guitar was played by physicist Mickey May.

Gibson Corporation had introduced a converted acoustic guitar - the ES-150 - in 1937 that used a single bar to pick up the signal from all strings. The instrument achieved some popularity, but was plagued by unequal loudness across the six strings.

Professor Wilson reasoned that: I) individual pick-ups could remedy the unequal loudness problem, and II) the acoustical body was not necessary for a fully electric instrument.

He developed the guitar shown in the figure and entered it in the annual engineering fair. The highlight of the fair was the playing of the guitar bay Mickey May, and the invention won the fair's first prize.

Patents from academia were quite unusual in the 1940s, so it is not unexpected that Professor Wilson did not patent his invention. Had he done so, it would have been one of the first patents granted to NC State faculty.

In 1949 Gibson incorporated both the individual string pick-up and the cut-away body in its model ES-175. The design was attributed to Ted McCarthy of Gibson Corporation, but the features were first conceived and implemented by NC State physicists.

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Please note that some say In 1931 George Beauchamp and engineer Adolph Rickenbacker designed and built the world's first electric guitar, known as the "Rickenbaker Frypan" due to its shape.
Was the genre of music Hip hop. Well what you expect its me,my bulls*it is legendary.

Yes and no.

"As a bit of trivia, the first recording of an electric guitar west of the Mississippi occurred in Dallas, September 28, 1935, during a session with Roy Newman and His Boys, an early Western swing dance band. Their guitarist, Jim Boyd, used his electrically amplified guiter during the recording of three songs, "Hot Dog Stomp" (DAL 178-Vo 03371), "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (DAL 180-Vo 03272), and "Corrine, Corrina" (DAL 181-Vo/OK 03117)."

The answer therefore is Country and Western. Who wudda thunk that boys and girls?

Brian it was actually bluegrass speed metal.

"Hot Dog Stomp" Yep that's about all they are good for................heeeee haaaaaaaaw. Sorry my red neck is showing again. Actually it almost sounds like it could be an early Led Zepp song don't ya think?

This fellow Αριστοτέλης Σαβάλας. Yes that's his real name had a number one hit in Europe with a song by Bread in 1975. What name is he more commonly known by and what was the song he sang?

Well I'll be dipped in pig poo and rolled in cracker crumbs! Some of that bluegrass is pretty damn fast as it is, and would love to see one of those "shreddar" cheese puffs try to do it. Oh, what was I thinking, Ibanez doesn't make a seven string acoustic guitar with a monkey grip headstock.

Ha this reminds me for some reason" starsky & hutch" dont ask me why.Ok Kojak,Telly Savalas the song was "if".
EDIT: And it was ify!!!!

scotty wrote:Ha this reminds me for some reason" starsky & hutch" dont ask me why.Ok Kojak,Telly Savalas the song was "if".
EDIT: And it was ify!!!!

Number one for ten weeks in Europe though. They must have been starving for good music.

winston wrote:

scotty wrote:Ha this reminds me for some reason" starsky & hutch" dont ask me why.Ok Kojak,Telly Savalas the song was "if".
EDIT: And it was ify!!!!

Number one for ten weeks in Europe though. They must have been starving for good music.

Telly Savalas - to steal a line attributed to Billy Wilder and Orson Welles - he had Van Gogh's ear for music!

Trivia time - according to legend, about whom was Orson speaking when he made the quip?

antipodean wrote:

winston wrote:

scotty wrote:Ha this reminds me for some reason" starsky & hutch" dont ask me why.Ok Kojak,Telly Savalas the song was "if".
EDIT: And it was ify!!!!

Number one for ten weeks in Europe though. They must have been starving for good music.

Telly Savalas - to steal a line attributed to Billy Wilder and Orson Welles - he had Van Gogh's ear for music!

Trivia time - according to legend, about whom was Orson speaking when he made the quip?

No takers?

A hint: he was talking of an extremely popular (and cheesy) young US performer who peaked in the '70s....