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Adolph Rickenbacker (b.1886 – d.1976)

Inventor of the Electric Guitar

Adolph Rickenbacker was a Swiss-American machinist and engineer of great skill who co-founded the famous Rickenbacker guitar company. Rickenbacker introduced the first cast aluminum guitars back in the 1930s. Today, Rickenbacker guitars are the backbone of multitudes of rock bands... from the world famous the Edge of U2 to countless garage rockers dreaming of making it big. The Rickenbacker jangle and chime is unmistakable.