Sometime after moving to Los Angeles in 1918 Adolph changed his surname to "Rickenbacker". Title = The History Of Rickenbacker GuitarsĪdolph Rickenbacher was born in Switzerland in 1892 and emigrated to the United States with relatives after the death of his parents. On January 26, 1928, the "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. Thereafter, Dopyera and his brothers began to make the tri-cone guitars in their Los Angeles shop, calling the new guitars "Nationals". After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so-called tri-cone guitar on April 9, 1927. These efforts produced an instrument which so pleased Beauchamp that he told Dopyera that they should go into business to manufacture them. Their next collaboration involved experiments with mounting three conical-shaped aluminum resonators into the body of the guitar beneath the bridge. 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. George 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 1920s, was searching for a way to make his instrument cut through an orchestra. The origins of today's "Rickenbacker Guitar Corporation" begin with two men: George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacher. During the early 1940s, Rickenbacker amps were sometimes repaired by fellow Californian Leo Fender, whose repair shop soon evolved into the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company.
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Lansing of the Lansing Manufacturing Company designed the speaker in the Rickenbacker professional model. Shortly thereafter, design engineer Ralph Robertson was hired to further develop the amplifiers and by the 1940s at least four different Rickenbacker amplifier models were made available. Van Nest, designed the first Electro String production-model amp. Right from the start, Electro String also sold "amplifiers" to go along with their electric guitars. By the time production ceased in 1939, several thousand frying pans had been produced. They had huge pickups with a pair of horseshoe magnets that arched over the top of the strings. These instruments, nicknamed "frying pans" due to their long necks and circular bodies, are the first solid-bodied electric guitars, though they were not standard guitars, but a lap-steel type. Isbn = 0-87930-329-8 ] For these guitars, they ultimately chose the brand name "Rickenbacher" (later changed to "Rickenbacker"), though early examples tend to have an "Electro" brandname on the headstock. The company was founded as the curiously-named "Ro-Pat-In Corporation" by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in 1931 to sell electric "Hawaiian" guitars which had been designed by Beauchamp, helped by his fellow employees at the "National String Instruments Corporation", Paul Barth and Harry Watson. Rickenbacker is the largest guitar company to manufacture all of its guitars within the United States. Isbn = 0-87930-329-8 ] All production takes place at its headquarters in Santa Ana, California. Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker ( pronEng|ˌrɪkənˈbækɚ) ), is an electric guitar manufacturer, notable for putting the world's first electric guitars into general production in 1932. For the airport, see Rickenbacker International Airport." :"For the American WWI fighter pilot, see Eddie Rickenbacker.
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