History Of The Frying P America's Successful Electric Guitar

The “Frying Pan” was the world’s first successful electric guitar. The Frying Pan was developed by George Beauchamp and Adolf Rickenbacker in 1934. The name frying pan was appropriate to the design of the guitar, as is hard aluminum body, and rugged shape resembled such a crude device, none the less the guitar worked. It not only worked, it helped pave the way to one of America’s greatest past times; Rock and Roll. From the Frying Pan to the Les Paul, the electric guitar stands to this day as one of America’s greatest symbol for good old fashion Rock ‘n’ Roll. (Maquire) The inventor who did most of the work in developing the frying pan was George Beauchamp. George Beauchamp, a man who grew up in Texas produced the world’s first electric steel

The rock and roll age began and established itself in the 1950’s. One of the most famous American icons from this time was Elvis Presley. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Elvis was regarded as incompetent, a bad influence, and rambunctious, but extremely talented. Even after his death his music broke records, and sold them too. He is believed to have sold more than one billion records worldwide, 60% of those sales being within the U.S. He remained unrivaled on the music chart up until the beginning of the 21st century, and even though there are those to this day who try to replicate his image, or re-create his music for covers, he is still regarded as the king of Rock n’ Roll. It’s no surprise that Elvis own a slurry of guitars from Les Paul’s to Gibson, but what’s important understand is the relationship that Elvis had with his guitar. Elvis and his guitars had a co-constitutional relationship. Elvis helped to make guitar an American symbol of Rock and Roll, and the guitar kind of did the same for Elvis, because without it, he wouldn’t have become the king of rock as we know to be

The Fender Stratocaster was first deigned in the 1950’s, made out of maple wood, a 7.25” fingerboard, and 250 kΩ pick up. This guitar today is extremely rare, in fact its retail value can reach up to 95000$. (Seo) This guitar obviously isn’t popular amongst novice guitarist, and definitely not for the average consumer, this type of guitar is sought after by those who have an appreciation for American musical history. Not only does this guitar have value for being the first of its kind within the Fender sphere, but it was designed and manufactured during the rock and roll