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Who Invented The Solid Body Electric Guitar? Les Paul? Leo Fender? Neither!
This video is not intended to be a complete history of the electric guitar. There certainly were others before Leo and Les. Ted McCarty showed Tom Wheeler and I the patents for the Gibson Les Paul Guitar. It had Ted's name on the documents. Did he invent the Les Paul or for that matter any electric guitar. No. When I interviewed Les he did not claim to invent the Les Paul Guitar. He built "The Log", but it certainly did not look like a Les Paul Guitar. Leo borrowed a guitar from Paul Bigsby that looked like a combo of a Fender and a Gibson, but the headstock looked amazingly like a modern Fender design. Rickenbacker had the Frying Pan and it was an electric "lap steel" , but you really could not hold it like a spanish guitar. Was that a solid body electric guitar? It could be argued so! And there were others. Many were hanging out in Southern California sharing and stealing ideas. See other videos.
Enjoy this video for what it is - a listen to a few people who know more than most of us.
I plan to post videos from Rickenbacker and Ted McCarty - so stand by for a Rickenbacker and Gibson Channel.