Take the Guitar Trivia Quiz and test your knowledge

1-The Acoustic guitar, originating from …………. has been around since the 1500s.

2-………….  acoustical engineer for Gibson, had started marketing a new Spanish style acoustic electric guitar and was famous for mandolin builds, headed the subdivision of Gibson responsible for producing these guitars, named Vivi-Tone

3-Leo Fender had been working on a solid body electric guitar. Fender owned a radio repair shop and started loaning out his invention to musicians in 1943.  In 1949, he started marketing the guitar as the …………. which became the first successful solid body electric guitar.  This model was then later renamed to “Broadcaster” and then finally to “Telecaster”.

4- While, America’s only native instrument is known as the …………  It first originated in Africa as the Bania.

5-In 1952, after Leo Fender guitar’s success, Gibson began work on the “log”. It was developed by……….  who also used his name for the guitar model produced.

6-Finally, In 1955, a Gibson engineer named, ………… invented the Humbucker pickup.

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Answers:

1-Spain      2-Lloyd Loar      3-“Esquire”    4-Banjo     5-Les Paul      6-Seth Lover