Electric guitars were first used during the 1930s, today an electric guitar can be found in almost every rock band. A great online feature about the invention of the electric guitar can be found at the site of the Lemelson Center: Sometimes, but typically it is a far more complex process. Amplifying the sound of …
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Sebastiao Tapajos is a guitarist from Brazil who played frequently in Germany too. I am sure that I have attended one of his concerts in the 70s in Freiburg. An interesting fact that I have found in a blog about Sebastiao Tapajos is that he played a concert as a repetition of one of his …
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One year ago the guitarist Bill Frisell has recorded a one hour concert with the NPR. I had written about this in my German blog www.gezupftes.de, but I have just found that I did not make an English version for this blog. Now I have just found a new Tiny Desk Concert with three Beatles …
When I searched for pieces by Abe Holzmann I have found a video of a ragtime guitar solo by Ton van Bergeyk – Smokey Mokes. This piece is contained in the collection Famous Guitar Ragtime Solos that has been produced in the 1970s by Stefan Grossman. The complete Album is available at youtube – you …
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