1. The History of the Electric Guitar
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...tars manufactured by Rickenbacker, to the more well known guitars manufactured by the likes of Fender and Gibson.     The popularity of the electric guitar began in the...

2. The History of The Electric Guitar
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...ess their own individual styles. The First Pickup In 1924 an inventive engineer working for the Gibson guitar company named Lloyd Loar, designed the first magnetic pickup. Using a magnet, he...

3. Free Rock and Roll Music History Curriculum
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Coming soon to a high school or middle school near you, a new curriculum for teaching about music that will supposedly be free, published by Scholastic , endorsed by MENC , and written in part by th

4. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
(Teacher Resources/Jazz)

...ornet (the same as Bix used). Howard Elkins plays a 20's-vintage Epiphone archtop tenor guitar and a 30's Gibson tenor banjo. Don Mopsick plays an old German double bass set up with gut strings and hi...