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Post subject: Re: Les Paul's 96th Birthday
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:00 pm
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96?? I thought Gibson was celebrating Les' 100th birthday this year. If not what was the "Les Paul 100" thing about?

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Post subject: Re: Les Paul's 96th Birthday
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:05 pm
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63supro wrote:
I'm not sure, but possibly the "Frying Pan" by Rickenbacker I believe was the first electric lap steel.

That would be Richenbacher with an h. He Americanized his name later (and also changed Adolf to Adolph for obvious reasons).

But neither the Rick nor Les Paul were first. The Stromberg-Voisinet company likely made the earliest mass-produced electric guitar, under the brand name Stromberg Electro, back in 1928:

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The company was at that time run by Henry Kuhrmeyer, better known as Kay, which the company later was renamed. Yup, that Kay.


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Post subject: Re: Les Paul's 96th Birthday
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:31 am
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arth1 wrote:
63supro wrote:
I'm not sure, but possibly the "Frying Pan" by Rickenbacker I believe was the first electric lap steel.

That would be Richenbacher with an h. He Americanized his name later (and also changed Adolf to Adolph for obvious reasons).

But neither the Rick nor Les Paul were first. The Stromberg-Voisinet company likely made the earliest mass-produced electric guitar, under the brand name Stromberg Electro, back in 1928:

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The company was at that time run by Henry Kuhrmeyer, better known as Kay, which the company later was renamed. Yup, that Kay.


Thank you for posting that Art. Cool information I did not know. 8) :D

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Post subject: Re: Les Paul's 96th Birthday
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 8:46 am
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01GT eibach wrote:
96?? I thought Gibson was celebrating Les' 100th birthday this year. If not what was the "Les Paul 100" thing about?

I am answering my own question ... I did not realize the original post was years old.

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I don't really care who did it first...

Between Leo and Les, I respect both. But if I have to point out who did more for music and rock and roll, I'd have to say Leo.

I can't thank this guy enough.

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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:00 pm
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de Melo wrote:
who did more for music and rock and roll

very debatable. From en.wikipedia.org:

Multitrack-recording innovations

In 1949, Les Paul was given one of the first Ampex Model 200A reel-to-reel audio tape recording decks by Crosby and went on to work with Ampex to create the eight track "Sel-Sync" machines for multitrack recording. Capitol Records released a recording that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage, entitled "Lover (When You're Near Me)", which featured Paul playing eight different parts on electric guitar, some of them recorded at half-speed, hence "double-fast" when played back at normal speed for the master. ("Brazil", similarly recorded, was the B-side.) This was the first time that Les Paul used multitracking in a recording (Paul had been shopping his multitracking technique, unsuccessfully, since the '30s. Much to his dismay, Sidney Bechet used it in 1941 to play half a dozen instruments on "Sheik of Araby"). Paul's early recordings were made with acetate discs. Paul would record a track onto a disk, then record himself playing another part with the first. He built the multitrack recording with overlaid tracks, rather than parallel ones as he did later. By the time he had a result he was satisfied with, he had discarded some five hundred recording disks.

Paul even built his own disc-cutter assembly, based on automobile parts. He favored the flywheel from a Cadillac for its weight and flatness. Even in these early days, he used the acetate-disk setup to record parts at different speeds and with delay, resulting in his signature sound with echoes and birdsong-like guitar riffs. When he later used magnetic tape, he could take his recording rig on tour with him, even making episodes for his fifteen-minute radio show in his hotel room. He later worked with Ross Snyder on the design of the first eight-track recording deck (built for him by Ampex for his home studio.)

Electronics engineer Jack Mullin had been assigned to a U.S. Army Signal Corps unit stationed in France during World War II. On a mission in Germany near the end of the war, he acquired and later shipped home a German Magnetophon (tape recorder) and fifty reels of I.G. Farben plastic recording tape. Back in the U.S., Mullin rebuilt and developed the machine with the intention of selling it to the film industry. He held a series of demonstrations which quickly became the talk of the American audio industry.

Within a short time, Crosby had hired Mullin to record and produce his radio shows and master his studio recordings on tape. Crosby invested US$50,000 in a Northern California electronics firm, Ampex. With Crosby's backing, Mullin and Ampex created the Ampex Model 200, the world's first commercially produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder. Crosby gave Les Paul the second Model 200 to be produced.

Les Paul invented Sound on Sound recording using this machine by placing an additional playback head, located before the conventional erase/record/playback heads. This allowed Paul to play along with a previously recorded track, both of which were mixed together on to a new track. This was a mono tape recorder with just one track across the entire width of quarter-inch tape; thus, the recording was "destructive" in the sense that the original recording was permanently replaced with the new, mixed recording. He eventually enhanced this by using one tape machine to play back the original recording and a second to record the combined track. This preserved the original recording

Les Paul bought the first Ampex 8-track recorder in 1957. Rein Narma built a custom 8-channel mixing console for Les Paul. The mixing board included in-line equalization and vibrato effects. He named the recorder "the octopus" and the mixing console "the monster". The name octopus was inspired by W. C. Fields who was the first person Les Paul played a multi-track recording to. Upon hearing the recording W. C. Fields said: 'My boy, you sound like an octopus."

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