George Harrison’s, ‘Secret’, ‘Mad’ guitar

@angusjuliastone Hi, would love to know if you still have that lovely Magnatone guitar? It has great historical connections with its designer Paul Barth. Would love to see photos 🙏

@angusjuliastone hi guys, would love to know if you still have this lovely Magnatone guitar? Designed by Paul Barth, it has historically important connections to the origins of the electric guitar! Would love to see photos thanks 🙏

@facebook the search by post facility is possibly one of the most important functions on the internet for researchers and historians. It literally help me to rewrite music history, and reconnect people after decades. Please reinstate ASAP 🙏

@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone True

@ChiBluesHistory @rdone which could then be amplified. Commercial production began in late summer of 1932 by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (Electro-Patent-Instrument Company), in Los Angeles, a partnership of Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker (originally Rickenbacher), and Paul Barth.

In the 1940s, when Muddy Waters arrived in Chicago, he brought his Delta blues roots, and he carried the seeds of a blues revolution. Since his acoustic guitar couldn’t cut through the noise of Chicago’s bustling clubs, Waters invented electricity and pioneered electrified blues.

@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone Not really true, Beauchamp and Barth created the horseshoe pickup, in Beauchamp’s garage, and on Barth’s mothers kitchen table. They lived a short drive from each other. Rickenbacker had the money and the machinery to make the frying pans and insisted they use his name.

@ChiBluesHistory @rdone Barth, who was vice president.[4] George Beauchamp, along with Adolph Rickenbacker, invented the electromagnetic pickups. Coils that were wrapped around a magnet would create an electromagnetic field that converted the vibrations of the guitar strings into electrical signals, ...

@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone True

@ChiBluesHistory @rdone Wikipedia says The first electrically amplified stringed instrument to be marketed commercially was a cast aluminium lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan" designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, the general manager of the National Stringed Instrument Corporation, with Paul...

Rubbing shoulders with fabulous, Grammy award winning guitarist Albert Lee tonight. Gave him a copy of Finding Fretless to read on the flight home to LA.

The most prolific recording artist in British music history (probably). Ray Russell 22nd Feb

@youngman_greg Don’s sister, Yvonne will love the photo, I will pass it on, thank you 😊

I do remember a couple of guys - not sure of their names. I think one of them was a blonde haired guy. Here is a picture of Don when he came to visit CA, I believe a couple of years before he passed away. This is in front of Barth Guitar. I have another picture of him - it must be on another hard drive. I'll find it and post it.

This is me playing my Custom Fender Jazz bass (1980). The neck is the 1st block year (1964?). The body was built by Don Underwood of Barth Guitar Shop in Riverside, CA. Don built many custom guitars and basses for many notable players from the Riverside, San Bernardino area. I still have and play that bass. It's been on many recordings. Jamie Luck, was playing a 1965 Guild M-20 all mahogany flat-back.

@youngman_greg I only ever hear great things about Don, great guitarist, great luthier, great man. Do you remember Devon Oxford who worked with Don?

Hi Paul. Thanks for the kind note. My brother and I played music in Riverside. On our way to the gig we would stop by and say hi to Don and the guys. My brother, Phil and Don were best friends and played music together for many years. I lived with Don in Santa Ana, CA for a couple of months while I was working in L.A. studios.

@BurtonPixels @kipconlon Made by Bartell of California, designed by Paul Barth

@kipconlon Not the Fender Strat stolen from the Blue Pad Club, I hope.😏 It’s weird, a lot of his instruments have such stories associated with them. Like his Black Widow guitar, which the family says somebody in Earth, Wind, & Fire stole and sold. Wild.

Brag alert. Today I literally held Jimi Hendrix's guitar. Even more insane, I was able to buy it for sixty dollars from a guy on Craigslist.

@JBONAMASSA how about I show you the exact location in LA where the ‘Frying Pan’ came alive?

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@BBC_ARoadshow there is a big coincidence/link between the Walker Brothers tour, Hendrix signature, and the Ray Russell @thebeatles Fretless guitar. Hendrix and Russell were on the same tour and more….. m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Very sad news about Australian music legend Mark Moffatt He was right when he claimed to have worked on one of the rarest of Beatles guitars, the ‘secret’, ‘mad’, Bartell Fretless when the ‘experts’ denied its existence! RIP Mark 😢

Delighted that Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso & multi-instrumentalist John Jorgenson is enjoying a good read. Hopefully some happy memories 🙂

@60sPsychJukebox Here’s some images of Paul Barth

The first electric guitar patent was granted to George Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker, and Paul Barth on August 27, 1937. Their invention revolutionized the world of music, and the electric guitar has become one of the most significant and popular musical instruments.

Is Andy Timmons going fretless or just enjoying a good read 🤔 Thanks for the photo @ToneQuest63

@rocknrollofall Mo Foster

Who's your all time favourite bass player?