[78-L] electric guitar 1929?

[Cary Ginell]

So is Bob Dunn still the earliest identified person to record with an amplified guitar?
Cary

> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:12:32 -1000
> From: malcolm at 78data.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] electric guitar 1929?
> 
> Pardon the typos. My fingers wanted a day off.
> Here's the corrected copy:
> 
> Okay, so what you have here (see ad) is an amplified acoustic guitar/banjo/mandolin/banjo-mandolin, etc., which is a far cry from an electric instrument. It's an/electrified/  instrument. The first commercial/electric/  instrument, where each strings vibrations were used by a transducer to form an electrical signal, which then went to an amplifier, was manufactured by Rickenbacker and was a lap-style "fry-pan" style Hawaiian steel guitar.
> 
> The record that is considered to be the first example of this type of electric guitar is Vi V-92, Noi Lane Hawaiian Orchestra (electric steel guitar player unknown), "Dreams Of Aloha", recorded in NYC on Feb. 22, 1933.
> 
> Bob Dunn followed suit in c. 1934.
> 
> Malcolm
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