Paul A. Bigsby was the designer of the Bigsbytremolo arm and proprieter of Bigsby Guitars. He also built the Travis-Bigsby guitar, a famous one-off solid body electric guitar for country musician Merle Travis. This guitar likely had an influence on the Telecaster later produced by Leo Fender, and its headstock shape was later made famous by Fender's Stratocaster model. A Bigsby is a type of vibrato device for electric guitar designed by its namesake Paul A. Bigsby. ... A tremolo arm is a lever attached to the bridge of a guitar that can slacken or elongate the strings temporarily, changing the pitch or creating a vibrato. ... Merle Travis November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983; an American country western singer, songwriter, and musician. ... 1950s-style Telecaster with natural finish, with metal bridge cover removed. ... Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991) was an American who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded G&L Musical Products (G&L Guitars). ... A recent Squier Stratocaster with maple fingerboard, two-tone sunburst finish, and contrasting plastic parts. ...
Before this, he was the foreman of Crocker Motorcycles, and designed many components, for example the overhead-valve cylinder head for their first V-twin motorcycle. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...
Paul's interest in motorcycles and Western music brought him into contact with Merle Travis.
Because Bigsby's instruments were built on a custom basis, he could not keep up with the orders that poured in, and a waiting list of two or more years followed.
By 1965, Paul was experiencing some health problems and wanted to sell his company.
Paul A. Bigsby was the designer of the Bigsby tremolo arm and proprietor of Bigsby Guitars.
This instrument, which Bigsby completed in 1948 likely had an influence on the Telecaster later produced by Leo Fender, as it had all six tuners in a row.
Bigsby, a motorcycle racer known as "P.A." also built a pedal steel guitar for Speedy West that West used on many of Tennessee Ernie Ford's early recordings as well as records by Travis, Red Ingle, Jean Shepard, Johnny Horton, Ferlin Husky and Merrill Moore.
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