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Originally Posted by thebugleboy  Are you talking about popcorn or guitars? The Rickenbacker line was begun by Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamps to market steel guitars in 1931 (some say the first electric was built by them, but other individuals were experimenting). Les Paul soon built the first hollow body electric, but the first successful solid body was Fender's in 1950. Steel strings have been used for quite a while. The sailors who introduced guitars to the South Pacific (whose inhabitants invented "slack string" or Hawaiian guitars) mostly used metal strung guitars because of the humidity...the metal strings worked well for slide stopping the strings for the Pacific islanders.
The manner in which a string is made allows certain functions such as easy bending which may make it more desirable for a particular instrument. The inability to control tonal coloring on an acoustic electronically makes material and production techniques important to the none-electric performer. |
XD hahaha...when i read that i though he was saying Orville Redenbacher too!