How the Electric Guitar was Born

William Christopher Handy once said that "guitar playing is a release, liberation, put simply it is freedom."

When the first electric guitar was made in the 1930s, critics hated it. Its sound was too different and way before its time. It took sometime for people to warm to the unique sound and once it began to be played more and more it was realized that it was more versatile than the original guitar.

The electric guitar's importance became known at the time when jazz orchestras multiplied in number. The electric guitar was originally designed by a collection of guitar manufacturers, electronics aficionados, and instrument producers.

Les Paul designed one of the first electric guitars when he started to experiment with guitars and microphones. The first recorded use of an electric guitar was by Gage Brewer, who played it in Wichita, Kansas.

The two instruments that Brewer used were from George Beauchamp in Los Angeles. Brewer continued to advertise the guitars, writing an article about them in Wichita Beacon and using the at another performance in October. But it was not until another five years that the electric guitar was to be recorded for the very first time.

George Barnes was the first to record two songs on a electric guitar in 1938. The songs were called Sweetheart Land and It's Low-Down Dirty Shame. Eddie Durham is often credited with the first recording, but his was 15 days later.

The first electric guitars produced for the public was by Electro String Instrument Corporation which was founded by George Beauchamp, Paul Barth and Adolph Rickenbacker in 1931

The company's mass-produced electric guitars were created from cast aluminum, and these were actually played on a person's lap using a steel slide. This is somewhat similar to the steel guitar at present. Due to its unusual material, these guitars were affectionately called "Frying Pans".

Leo Fender was the first to produced a commercially successful guitar in 1946. He was radio repairman and the guitar was solid-bodied - much different from the hollow-bodied Jazz electric guitars. It was originally called "Esquire", and it quickly became a favorite of Country-Western guitar players.

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