GUITAR-RICKENBACKER ELECTRO A-22 ....it gave LEO Ideas

RICKENBACKER| ELECTRO A-22

Back in 1931 George Beauchamp came up with the idea of new guitar. 
popular Hawaiian music fad in Pop 

Its music involved virtual playing bottle neck style guitar which played both conventionally but also by resting on your lap and not wrapping your hand around the neck but playing straight on. it was the birth of the Lap Steel guitar.

It was adopted by bands that would have typically been Pop Jazz bands especially as featured instrument and need to cut. Making it electric was an obvious answer. George was perhaps the first to see you did not need 

much of a body so he made from banjo size bowl from aluminum.

He teamed up with Ric and by 1934 it was on sale. 

It was soon nicknamed the 'Frying Pan' but was 

officially the Electro Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar. 

It morphed into being used in Country music.

Ten years later a young Leo Fender was converting P.A. amps into Steel guitar friendly amps. He soon decided to make his own amps since it was not much more work. It was not long after he thought why not make the guitar too and 

package it with the amp. It's success led him to think players 

just might buy his Tele idea.