Fender Introduces the Broadcaster Guitar
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce Series
- Categories: Music, Economics
- Subcategories: Business
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: California
- Date: 1948
Article abstract: With the introduction of the first commercially manufactured solid-body electric guitar, the Broadcaster, Fender revolutionized the guitar industry and changed the face of popular music.
Summary of Event
It has been estimated that between 1931 and 1937, approximately twenty-seven hundred electric guitars and amplifiers were sold in the United States. The Electro String Instrument Company, run by Adolph Rickenbacker and his designer partners, George Beauchamp and Paul Barth, produced two of the first commercially manufactured electric...
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