We're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the electric guitar, and it's been fascinating to hear how this simple instrument ...

[Noah] tipped us off to his work with Physically Engaged Electronic Instruments. He is building instruments, that while being electronic, require physical action to drive them. In the video after the ...

Happy 100th Birthday, Les Paul! June 9, 2015, is an important day for the guitar and music world: It is the centennial of the birth of electric guitar icon and innovator, Les Paul, who was born in ...

What’s considered the best-selling pop instrument of all time was invented by Southern Californian Leo Fender. Aug. 10, 1909: Clarence Leonidas Fender is born in Anaheim. 1928: Fender graduates from ...

Leo Fender and Les Paul were pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Their innovations helped change the course of music — and put the guitar at the center of the rock 'n' roll revolution. Fender ...