Rickenbacker Wikipedia. Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. In 1. 93. 2, the company became the worlds first to produce electric guitars and eventually produced a range of electric guitars and bass guitars. Foundingedit. Sketch of Rickenbacker frying pan lap steel guitar from 1. View and Download Electronic Arts 014633191639 Rock Band 2 Drum Set Controller user manual online. User Guide. 014633191639 Rock Band 2 Drum Set Controller Video. The company was founded in 1. Ro Pat In Corporation Elect. Ro Patent Instruments by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in order to sell electric Hawaiian guitars. These instruments had been designed by Beauchamp, assisted at the National String Instrument Corporation by Paul Barth and Harry Watson. They chose the brand name Rickenbacher later changed to Rickenbacker, though early examples bear the brand name Electro. Nicknamed frying pans because of their long necks and circular bodies, the instruments were the first solid bodiedelectric guitars, though they were a lap steel type. They had a single pickup with a steel cover that arched over the strings. By the time production ceased in 1. Electro String also sold amplifiers to go with their electric guitars. A Los Angeles radio manufacturer named Van Nest designed the first Electro String production model amplifier. Shortly thereafter, design engineer Ralph Robertson further developed the amplifiers, and by the 1. Rickenbacker models were made available. James B. Lansing of the Lansing Manufacturing Company designed the speaker in the Rickenbacker professional model. During the early 1. Rickenbacker amps were sometimes repaired by Leo Fender, whose repair shop evolved into the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company. Early historyeditGeorge Beauchamp was a vaudeville performer, violinist, and steel guitarist who, like most of his fellow acoustic guitarists in the pre electric guitar days of the 1. He first conceived of a guitar fitted with a phonograph like amplifying horn, and approached inventor and violin maker John Dopyera to create a prototype which proved to be, by all accounts, a failure. Their next collaboration involved experiments with mounting three conical shaped aluminum resonators into the body of the guitar beneath the bridge. These efforts produced an instrument which so pleased Beauchamp that he told Dopyera that they should go into business to manufacture them. After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so called tri cone guitar on April 9, 1. Thereafter, Dopyera and his brothers began to make the tri cone guitars in their Los Angeles shop, calling the new guitars Nationals. On January 2. 6, 1. National String Instrument Corporation was certified and, with its new factory located near a metal stamping shop owned by Adolph Rickenbacher and staffed by some of the most experienced and competent craftsmen available, began to produce Spanish and Hawaiian style tri cone guitars as well as four string tenor guitars, mandolins and ukuleles. Adolph Rickenbacher was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1. ODAwWDY0Ng==/z/gl4AAOSw1h5XQS2i/$_3.jpg' alt='Rickenbacker 325 Pdf' title='Rickenbacker 325 Pdf' />
United States to live with relatives after the death of his parents. Sometime after moving to Los Angeles in 1. Rickenbacker. In 1. Rickenbacker and two partners formed the Rickenbacker Manufacturing Company and incorporated it in 1. By the time he met George Beauchamp and began manufacturing metal bodies for the Nationals being produced by the National String Instruments Corporation, Rickenbacker was a highly skilled production engineer and machinist. Adolph became a shareholder in National and, with the assistance of his Rickenbacker Manufacturing Company, National was able to boost production to fifty guitars a day. Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Activated And Tested Adam. Unfortunately, Nationals line of instruments was not well diversified and, as demand for the expensive and hard to manufacture tri cone guitars began to slip, the company realized that it would need to produce instruments with a lower production cost if it was going to succeed against rival manufacturers. Dissatisfaction with what John Dopyera felt was mismanagement led him to resign from National in January 1. Dobro Manufacturing Corporation, later called Dobro Corporation, Ltd, and began to manufacture his own line of resonator equipped instruments dobros. Patent infringement disagreements between National and Dobro led to a lawsuit in 1. Dobro suing National for 2,0. Problems within Nationals management as well as pressure from the deepening Great Depression led to a production slowdown at National, and this ultimately resulted in part of the companys fractured management structure organizing support for George Beauchamps newest project the development of a fully electric guitar. By the late twenties, the idea for electrified string instruments had been around for some time, and experimental banjo, violin and guitar pickups had been developed. George Beauchamp had himself been experimenting with electric amplification as early as 1. Along the way Beauchamp also built a one string test guitar made out of a 2. X4 piece of lumber and an electric phonograph pickup. As the problems at National became more apparent, Beauchamps home experiments took on a more rigorous shape, and he began to attend night classes in electronics as well as collaborating with fellow National employee Paul Barth. When the prototype electric pickup they were developing finally worked to his satisfaction, Beauchamp asked former National shop craftsman Harry Watson to make a wooden neck and body to which the electronics could be attached. It was nicknamed the frying pan because of its shape, though Rickenbacker liked to call it the pancake. The final design Beauchamp and Barth developed was an electric pickup consisting of a pair of horseshoe shaped magnets that enclosed the pickup coil and completely surrounded the strings. Frying Pan Electro Spanish At the end of 1. Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and with several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro Pat In Corporation elekt. RO PATent INstruments in order to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis upon their newly developed A 2. Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the Frying Pan lap steel electric guitar as well as an Electric Spanish standard model and companion amplifiers. In the summer of 1. Ro Pat In began to manufacture cast aluminum production versions of the Frying Pan as well as a lesser number of standard Spanish Electrics also known as Electro Spanish models, built from wooden bodies similar to those made in Chicago for the National Company. Patch Panel Spreadsheet Template. These instruments constitute the origin of the electric guitar by virtue of their string driven electro magnetic pick ups. In 1. 93. 3 the Ro Pat In companys name was changed to Electro String Instrument Corporation and its instruments labeled simply as Electro. In 1. 93. 4 the name of Rickenbacher was added in honor of the companys principal partner, Adolph Rickenbacker. During the early production of the A 2. Frying pan, Beauchamp and Rickenbacher would experiment with wooden bodied Spanish guitars and solid body prototypes ultimately giving birth to the Electro Spanish Model B and the Electro Spanish Ken Roberts. Both models had been experimental, produced as early as 1. Installing Merge Modules. The Electro Spanish Ken Roberts Model was subject to a limited production of forty six. There were several new design elements found on the Electro Spanish Ken Roberts.