Paul Tutmarc

Paul Tutmarc (* May 29, 1896, † September 23, 1972 in Seattle ) was a musician and creator of musical instruments. He sang tenor, played and taught Hawaiian guitar (English Lap steel guitar ). Tutmarc developed a number of stringed instruments, including electrically amplified double basses, bass and Hawaiian guitars.

Life

Tutmarc sang as a child in the church choir. At age 12, he sang and played guitar, banjo and, with 15 years, acoustic Hawaiian guitar, thus contributing to the income of his family. Later he worked for a traveling vaudeville troupe. With a little more than 20 years, he moved to Seattle, where he worked on the docks. In the second half of the 1920s he began with radio and theater performances and gained notoriety through his tenor voice.

From the early 1930s Tutmarc gave guitar lessons. At the same time he began the electrical gain a number of musical instruments, including piano, harp and classical guitar to experiment. He provided these instruments with a pickup from a wire wound magnet and was able to reproduce their sound with a converted radio the brand Atwater - Kent.

Tutmarcs company Audiovox Manufacturing Co. was among the very first manufacturers of electric Hawaiian guitars, the Tutmarc often vorführte itself and applied. In 1935, he developed an upright played, electrically amplified bass, jokingly referred to as "electric bull- fiddle ", but which served as a promotional tool in the first place. He gained marketing the Model # 736 "Electronic Bass Fiddle ," which was equipped with frets and designed for a horizontal way of playing celebrity. This instrument, with its radical new design is now considered the first commercially produced electric bass guitar; they appeared 15 years before the far more famous Fender Precision bass.

Tutmarc came to the end of the 1960s as a musician. He gave lessons until he died in 1972 from cancer.

References and links

  • Audiovox # 736 Electric Bass Fiddle
  • Bud Tucmarc: Paul Tutmarc, inventor of the first electric guitar (English )
  • American musician
  • Inventor
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1972
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