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Rhythm section
- Bass guitarPaul Tutmarc stood outside his music store in Seattle, Washington during the 1930s. He held a new instrument that changed how musicians played low notes…
- Electric guitarGeorge Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker created the first commercially marketed electric guitar in 1932. They called this instrument the Frying Pan because…
- GuitarA 3,300-year-old stone carving depicts a Hittite bard playing a stringed instrument. This image stands as the oldest known iconographic representation of a…
- SynthesizerIn 1938, the Hammond Organ Company unveiled the Novachord. This massive instrument relied on 72 voltage-controlled amplifiers and 146 vacuum tubes to…
- Double bassA 1640 painting by Peter Lely shows a violone being played, capturing an instrument that sits at the crossroads of two distinct families.