What these results were could well be anyone's guess. In the full-patent specification Beauchamp records that he found the "best results" came from making the body from a synthetic organic substance. No-one can say unless the instruments or at least people who played them still exist. Bakelite is not only very collectable it is beautiful, changing colour with age and possibly even acquiring a matured sound. The main evidence tells of a bakelite violin, something now probably only traceable through specialist auction houses. The materials used by Beauchamp must have been variable in trial. In the last two decades of the second millennium one of the most common features of bowed stringed instruments, that of being made from trees, is slightly less common. Plastics, fibre-glass, carbon-structures, acrylics are beginning to work. Aspects of this electric violin having the all important 'staying-power' to survive 'time' are very much in evidence when considering the musical market of today. Every detail regarding traditional violin making appears to have been studied, questioned and then altered. There does not seem to be a comparison to Beauchamp. One of the many remarkable features of this "practical" design is that it is made of bakelite. images above from left to right - American Musical Instrument Society Newletter (Vol 29, No.3 Fall 2000) Musurgia: New York String Service, New York (2004) Anon (2006) A general object of this invention is to provide a practical, compact and effective electrical stringed musical instrument. This invention relates to musical instruments and relates more particularly to electrical musical instruments of the violin type. ![]() In the case of Beauchamp the reader is bombarded from the outset by what have become incredibly accurate claims but George does it in a grand sweeping manner. The catalogue of instruments that Electro produced was illustrated with the words "Brother Musician Listen to a Miracle" but somehow by the mid-1970s the name Electro String Instrument Corporation was associated with only string manufacturing, the mere accessories to the Art of Violin making?įor the difficult period of time considered there are no such thorough, reliable and interesting facts as cheaply available as the Full Patent Specifications. This Corporation was set up exclusively to manufacture electric stringed instruments. It was manufactured by the Electro String Instrument Corporation - formed from an alliance between Beauchamp and one Adolph Rickenbacker in Los Angeles. This instrument as thoroughly outlined in the accepted full patent specifications is generally considered the first electric violin to be made commercially available.
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