Adolph Rickenbacher (b. 1886) was the founder of the Rickenbacker guitar company. Punk/new wave group The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker is one of the oldest brand names in the manufacture of electric guitars. ...
Born in Switzerland and moving to the United States as a child, he settled in Los Angeles in 1928. This article is about the largest city in California. ...
His Rickenbacher Manufacturing Company made metal bodies for National Steel Guitars beginning in the 1920s. It was through this connection that Rickenbacher met George Beauchamp and Paul Barth, and in 1931 the three founded the Ro-Pat-In Company. In 1932 they produced the first cast aluminum versions of the lap steel guitar. In 1934 the company was renamed the Electro String Instrument Corporation. By the time production ceased in 1939, about 2,700 Frying Pan lap steel guitars had been produced. George D. Beauchamp (1899 - 1941), inventor of musical instruments and founder of National Reso-Phonic and Rickenbacker. ... The lap steel guitar (also called Hawaiian guitar or simply lap steel or steel guitar) is a type of guitar, and a method of playing the instrument. ...
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Rickenbacker is the largest guitar company to manufacture all of their guitars within the United States, which is a key factor in their consistently high quality and prices.
Many Rickenbackers — both guitars and basses — are equipped to be compatible with a "Rick-O-Sound" unit via an extra "stereo" output socket, that allows the two pickups (or neck and middle pickup combined/bridge pickup, in the case of three pickup instruments) to be connected to different effects units or amplifiers.
Rickenbackers were adopted by other 1960s notables, including Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Pete Townshend of The Who, Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane and Steppenwolf but they fell out of fashion in the early '70s, though Rickenbacker basses remained in favor.
Rickenbacker continued to specialize in steel guitars well into the 1950s, but with the rock and roll boom they shifted towards producing standard guitars, both acoustic and electric.
Rickenbackers were adopted by other 1960s notables, including Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and Pete Townshend of The Who, but they fell out of fashion in the 1970s, while Rickenbacker basses remained in favour.
Many Rickenbackers - both guitars and basses - are equipped with a "Rick-O-Sound" stereo output, which allows the different pickups of the instrument to be connected to different effects units or amplifiers.
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