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Originally Posted by PeterT
Inventor of the les paul guitar?
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I'm not sure that I would put it quite like that, but... yes!
Lester William Polfuss is better known to us all as Les Paul! Les is the man responsible for inventing the '
solid body electric guitar.' Prior to this, electrics were all hollow-bodied acoustic guitars that had electrical pickups added to them. Les Paul decided that he wanted a different sound, and so put some pickups on an ordinary 2x4, added a guitar neck and bridge, and created the solid body sound. He's also responsible for bringing sound-on-sound 'over-dubbing,' and multi-track to the attention of the rest of us!
Gibson Guitars produces several models of the 'Les Paul' guitar, one of the most popular styles of electric guitars around the world!
PeterT.... a question, please!
Stitchawl