Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug ...

The man who invented history’s most iconic electric guitar couldn’t play, or even tune it. But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” ...

First he built public address systems for bands, then designed pickups for semi-acoustic guitars and lap-steel guitars. By 1948, he saw the potential for a solid-body electric guitar.

First are solid-body electric guitars. These electric guitar types feature some of the most well-known names in the electric guitar world, such as the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster.

Bacon surveys the history of the guitar’s creation, which dates to Les Paul’s experiments in the 1930s with solid-body, electric guitars with names like ‘the log,’ and then to Gibson’s ...

Brooks Cobb is a luthier who builds high-end, custom guitars that often carry five-figure price tags. Cobb builds his instruments almost entirely by hand.

A Los Angeles manufacturer named Rickenbacker can plausibly lay claim to patenting the first solid-body electric guitar in 1935. But it had problems. To start with, it didn't look like a guitar.

Chronicling Les Paul’s (born Lester Polsfuss, 1915-2009) path to inventing the first solid-body electric guitar, Guitar Genius gives readers a glimpse into a young mind taking flight, following ...

There's Gretsch's first prototype of Chet Atkins' signature guitar, built in 1955, a 1958 Korina Gibson flying V played by Neil Young, the second-ever solid-body guitar made by Paul Bigsby in 1948 ...

He invented multitracking and the first solid-body guitars. He played at the first ''Jazz at the Philharmonic'' concert, absorbed Django Reinhardt as a contemporary, and made more than 40 hit records.

The use of electric guitar gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1940s. Leo Fender's Broadcaster was the first mass-produced solid body electric on the market in the late 1940s.

He produced the first solid-body guitars, including the Telecaster Broadcaster models, in 1951 and the Stratocaster, with its simple built-in electronics, first hit stores in September of 1954.