The Wire Episode 3: Going Electric
Series: The Wire
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:52:55
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Using resonators, horn attachments, new strings and new materials, people had always been trying to make the quiet and humble guitar louder. Electricity finally did the trick. From early jazz to the age of the rockstar, each new innovation expanded the electric guitar's world of sound and cemented its status as one of the iconic symbols of the 20th century.
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Posted on November 01, 2005 at 07:07 AM | Permalink
Review of The Wire Episode 3: Going Electric
This third episode about the development of the electic guitar was especially inspiring. Since I am a piano player, I've often been jealous of how much attention the electric guitar gets in rock music. Now that I have learned about the rise of the guitar owing to electification, I am hopeful that future developments in electronic music may rescue the place of the keyboard and other traditonal music instruments. (Though I personally love synthesizer music very much, it is very much a background instrument in most rock music and most other classical instruments have just disappeared..)