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In Reply to: History of Electric Guitar posted by Mat Carter on June 19, 2000 at 13:45:23:
My vote goes to Rickenbacker. I believe they had the patents for the first electric guitar pickup. They were originally either fitted to their own lapsteel guitars (nicknamed frying-pan) or retro-fitted into pre-made steel string Spanish guitars.