Curiously, it will not seem like musicians had been those who dreamed up the idea of an electrified instrument. Somewhat, it was the legions of newbie tinkerers who started taking aside merchandise like the phone, radio, and phonograph and seeing what they might do. Various the makes use of they imagined now seem bizarre. A 1919 magazine advert supplied a device for amplifying sounds, which, it mentioned, may possibly be used to amplify a violin—or to spy on folks. One different magazine from 1922 touted an novice-constructed “radio violin” : mainly a keep on with a string and a telephone pickup linked to an amp and a metallic horn. “Weak tones might be amplified by a radio loudspeaker,” the caption defined. Later that decade, a couple of proto-rock-‘n’-rollers figured out that by shoving a phonograph needle into the top of their acoustic guitar, they may get sound to come back out of the speaker. They have been a good way from “Free Chook,” but the major concept was there.
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