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MandolinIn 1787, a man named Luigi Bassi stood on a stage in Vienna and played a small, bowl-shaped instrument to serenade a woman in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.
Bass guitarIn 1935, a solid-body electric bass guitar with four strings and a single pickup was built in Seattle, Washington, yet fewer than one hundred of these…
Electric guitarThe first fully functioning solid-body electric guitar to be manufactured and sold was the Ro-Pat-In Electro A-25, known as the Frying Pan, introduced in…