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Through the history of music and the guitars, there are bits of interesting information that all the fans enjoy meeting. There is no single list this, so here is a compilation of some fun facts about electric guitars:
Fun Facts
From June 29 to July 9 2006, M & I Bank pays homage to rock and roll 'Summerfest and the world's largest Music Festival. Two Guitars 18-story building in the two faces of M & I Bank headquarters lit up the horizon of Milwaukee.
In a wedding ceremony in London in 2001, guitarist Chris Black fan is married his Stratocaster.
Jimi Hendrix Fender Stratocaster has a tombstone carved on it.
The smallest guitar the world is 10 micrometers long chains of 50 nanometers (100 atoms) wide.
Les Paul is said that shortly after the creation of a prototype electric guitar that made him famous, he was very drunk one night and made an electric banjo, which strangely did not win as much recognition as its efforts above.
Another Fun fact Les Paul - Les Paul had a car accident in 1948 and asked the doctor to set his arm permanently in a specific position play-guitar.
A Gibson solid body with no serial number is 1952. Gibson did not use any number of series in 1952.
Epiphone originally a Greek company violin, banjos made from 1923 and in 1930 switched to the guitar. Epiphone was the company banjo successful only to change to guitar production.
Leo Fender was a saxophonist, not a guitarist, the current head of the Corporation is also a saxophonist!
To test the strength and durability of guitar necks, in 1950, Leo Fender balanced guitar neck between two chairs and sat on it.
Fender uses alder, not the usual ash for guitars. alder does not grow large enough to guitars anywhere except Oregon, within an area only 200 miles by 50 miles.
In odd years a Fender over a quarter million guitars. They are the largest manufacturer of electric guitars in the world. Fender also makes banjos, mandolins and violins.
The Fender factory makes about 90,000 frames per day. This is More Than 20,000 miles per year, enough to go around the world. Also that about 950 guitar necks a day!
The Telecaster was originally called the speaker but faced a battery of the same name. While the new name was considered, Fender produced nameless guitars in the head, and these Nocasters "are collector's items.
The highest price paid for an electric guitar in auction, was $ 959,500 at Christie's in July 2004 for Stratocaster "Blackie Eric Clapton. The previous record was Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead as" of Tiger - $ 957,500 in 2002.
To design the Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Museum in Seattle Center, Frank O. Gehry went straight to the source of rock 'n roll: the guitar. He bought a pair of electric guitars, and uses cut pieces of a design model. The final design has yet bright reds and blues of the guitar parts.
by Werner Wichmann - ElectricGuitarz.com