72 años de guitarras eléctricas

Nos enteramos vía Barcepundit de que hoy se cumple el 72 aniversario de la patente que hizo Gibson de la guitarra eléctrica con pastilla. Ahí es ná. 1937: Guy Hart, general manager of the Gibson guitar company, is awarded the first patent for an electric guitar pickup. The instrument that defines popular music in the second half of the 20th century is born. Gibson’s electric guitar wasn’t not the first to market, but its pickup design was superior to competing models — especially after guitar-makers begin dropping them into their new, innovative designs over a decade later.

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