Existing comment:
ES-350T (serial no. A29125)
ca. 1958
Gibson
Chuck Berry established the electric guitar as the primary instrumental voice of rock and roll. His guitar solos featured expressive bends and double stops that led the way for other rock guitarists and largely replaced other solo instruments such as the piano and saxophone. An electric guitar's pickups use an electromagnet and wire coil to transmit the vibrations of steel strings to an amplifier as electrical signals. In 1957, Gibson introduced Seth Lover's patent-applied-for (PAF) humbucking pickups, which have two coils with currents running in opposite directions, canceling (or bucking) an electrical hum that the earlier single-coil pickups could produce. Berry used this instrument to perform his hits, including "Johnny B. Goode," at many notable performances in the late 1950s and early 1960s. |