The Les Paul guitar known as "Black Beauty", which will go up for auction next month, is seen in the offices of Guernsey's Auctions President Arlan Ettinger in New York NEW YORK (Reuters) - A guitar ...

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) – A recording engineer whose invention of a pedal that allowed guitarists to create a fuzzy, distorted sound most famously used by Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones’ ...

Online exhibit showing how the need for louder guitars led to the invention and proliferation of the electric guitar and how the emergence and popularity of rock and roll led to the guitar's ...

Exploring the origins of the humble electric guitar, namely the 1932 Rickenbacker Frying Pan lap guitar which was the first ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient way to adjust guitar strings without the hassle of finding an Allen wrench," said an inventor, from Bloomington, Minn., "so I ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A guitar that helped launch rock’n’roll will be for sale on Oct. 13, when Christie’s in New York auctions inventor Les Paul’s own personal guitar bearing his name. The “Number One ...

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A guitar that helped launch rock'n'roll will be for sale on Oct. 13, when Christie's in New York auctions inventor Les Paul's own personal guitar bearing his name. The ...

A guitar that helped launch rock'n'roll will be for sale on Oct. 13, when Christie's in New York auctions inventor Les Paul's own personal guitar bearing his name. NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A ...