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The Gibson Les Paul solid body was the first guitar to use humbuckers in substantial production. However, the first use of a humbucking pickup for guitar was done by Joseph Raymond “Ray” Butts, but Seth Lover of Gibson around 1955 was also working on one himself.
Les Paul, a guitarist, is often credited with inventing the first solid body, but Fender is often credited as the first to commercially market a solid-body electric guitar, which itself was based on a design by Merle Travis.
The solid-body electric guitar is made of solid wood, without functionally resonating air spaces. The first solid-body Spanish standard guitar was offered by Vivi-Tone no later than 1934. This model featured a guitar-shaped body of a single sheet of plywood affixed to a wood frame.
The first solid-body guitar. A major difficulty for the first electric guitars with pickups attached to their bodies was the acoustic phenomenon called "feedback," where sound amplified by an amplifier causes the instrument to resonate, creating a cacophony of sound.
Together they formed the Electro String Company and in 1931 produced their first Hawaiian guitar a lap-steel known as the Frying Pan, the pickup made this guitar the first commercially viable electric. Their success prompted Gibson and others to start producing electric guitars.
Leo Fender (born August 10, 1909, Anaheim, California, U.S.—died March 21, 1991, Fullerton, California) was an American inventor and manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. Together with George Fullerton, Fender developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar in 1951.
The iconic solid-body electric guitar was created by guitarist Les Paul in 1941. No longer relying on any acoustic amplification, the solid-body electric guitar could make much smoother, more sonically isolated tones.
