Earliest electric guitar a Short Scale

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:53 pm

Talk about SHORT, yo! It might also be a bong, but I am not sure. His amp and eyebrows are a but sketchy. I think he is in the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:41 pm

Why did they make it so weird looking? You think the natural progression would to stick a pickup onto an archtop, then maybe to make a solidbody in the shape of an archtop if there was a lot of feedback issues.

Will · Post by **Will** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:33 pm

It's a lapsteel: a Rickenbacker "Frying-Pan" from 1929. They're made of semi-hollow bakelite filled with newspaper.

The first "Spanish-style" electric was the Rickenbacker Electro-Spanish in 1935:

1937 wouldn't make it the oldest electric guitar or the oldest Spanish guitar or the oldest picture of an electric guitar. Gibson introduced the electric ES-150 in 1936:

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:46 pm

Gavin wrote:Why did they make it so weird looking? You think the natural progression would to stick a pickup onto an archtop, then maybe to make a solidbody in the shape of an archtop if there was a lot of feedback issues.

hawaiian guitar style was all the rage then, it wasn't meant to be played like a 'modern' guitar.