The history of guitars can be traced back 4000 years, where it is thought to have been a development of the Lute. A lute is a stringed instrument with a pear shaped body and like the guitar its strings are parallel to its body and run along a neck. However there is evidence from the Ancient Egypt era that show an instrument that resembled the acoustic guitar with marks on the frets, this is seen to be the birth of the acoustic guitar. In the 1920’s – 1940’s the most popular genre of music was Big Band. Big band was a Jazz group of ten or more musicians and usually consisted of trumpets, trombones, saxophones and a rhythm section; guitar, bass, piano and drums but the bands typically got their power and swing from the brass and drums resulting in the guitar not being heard, which is when Rickenbacker decided to amplify it creating the Rickenbacker ‘Frying pan’. …show more content…
However, after he finished college in 1938 he started his own radio shop named Fender’s Radio Service, it was during this time that he was contacted by a local band leader who asked Leo to build six PA systems for him, after this many other musicians came to him and asked for similar PA systems and amplifiers which he built for them, he also rented, repaired and sold other PA