Quarky Plays The Guitar
How did a frying pan become an electric guitar?
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The story
Quarky plucks an acoustic guitar and the wooden body pushes the sound out into the room. Antonio de Torres set that shape in the 1850s. Then in 1931 a guitar nicknamed the Frying Pan used a magnet and coil to turn string wiggles into electricity, and rock music was on its way.
What you'll learn
- A hollow wooden body amplifies a plucked string's vibration.
- A pickup uses a magnet and coil to turn string movement into an electric signal.
- The 1931 Frying Pan was one of the first electric guitars.
- Quarky takeaway: change how you catch a sound and you invent a new kind of music.
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