This had an 1×8” transistor combo in a separate pod bolted to the main body… and also included a jack output for plugging into a proper amp, just in case.Įarly tech-toting guitars didn’t so much blaze a trail as whack a few nettles with a walking stick
Early teisco guitar full#
It never went into full production – probably because the amp and its motorcycle battery made it too heavy to play – but another European pioneer, Antonio ‘Wandre’ Pioli, took the concept further with his Bikini model, made in Italy by the Davoli Krundaal company for at least two years in the early 60s. Höfner seems to have got there first with the Fledermausgitarre (‘bat guitar’) that it created for the 1960 Musikmesse expo: an odd-shaped beast with a four-watt solid-state amp built into the top part of its body. And it’s something that several makers tried in that most fearlessly forward-thinking of decades, the 1960s. That way you don’t need… well, an amplifier. The most obvious piece of technology to build into a guitar is an amplifier. Matt Bellamy is a standard bearer for modern guitars with built-in tech Amp pain supernova But there is some evidence to suggest that us plank-janglers aren’t quite as conservative as we sometimes think we are… You might well look at the new Boss Eurus GS-1 – packing an advanced polyphonic synth engine into what otherwise looks like a fairly traditional two-pickup S-type – and speculate that its odds of globe-straddling success are perhaps on the long side. This, though, is a story with a lot more misses than hits. Not a bad starting point for our history of guitars with built-in technological enhancements. That first gadget was, of course, the electro-magnetic pickup – a little innovation that, after a few decades of tweaks, was powerful enough to turn the gently strummy six-string into the driving force of that ungodly phenomenon known as rock ’n’ roll. READ MORE: The history of the Epiphone Casino.
So can you blame people for spending the best part of a century trying to match it?
In other words, it was a wonderful success. The first time someone tried fitting fancy gadgetry to a guitar, it unleashed terrifying satanic forces upon the world and turned a whole generation into gibbering delinquents.
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