History of the

electric guitar.
By Caleb Potter
Understanding Electric Guitar
• Electric guitars are guitars that use • They are one of the greatest
magnetic pulls to amplify the sound of
inventions in music as they
the string vibrations allowing louder
sound and access to effects.
allow for multiple different
• Unlike acoustic and classical guitars genres to exist and be popular.
electric guitars typically don’t have a • Guitars come in different shapes
sound hole, however there are semi and forms the most famous
acoustic guitars which feature “f holes”
electric guitar shapes being the
allowing for both an acoustic and
electric combination. ‘stratocaster’ and the ‘les paul’.
The First Electric
Guitar
•The first electric guitar was actually invented by a man named Les
Paul. This invention was dubbed ‘the log’ by les and many others and
can actually be seen at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville
Tennessee. ‘He sawed an Epiphone hollowbody in half and attached
the two sides of his four-by-four block of pine, this was more for
aesthetic than acoustic reasons—to make the thing look like a real
guitar.’
• charlie (2008). Les Paul’s ‘The LOG’ Guitar, Circa 1939 - [Les Paul
History]. [online] Gear Vault. Available at: https://gear-vault.com/les-
paul-log-guitar-1939-birth-les-paul/ [Accessed 12 Jan. 2023].
Useful links around the log
• Les Paul’s “The LOG” Guitar, Circa 1939 - [Les Paul History] (gear-v
ault.com)
• The incredible story and decades of dedication that gave birth to Les P
aul’s ‘Number One’
Goldtop – the solidbody guitar that changed the world | Guitar World
• Playing the First Solid Body Electric Guitar (*well... it’s complicated)
- YouTube
Some Favourite Electric Guitar Brands

• Ibanez guitars
• Schecter
Guitars. Handmade, Custom
Model Guitar Manufacturer
since 1976
• Welcome to the New Gibson
Brands
Guitar
shapes