books.google.ca - Around 1930, a group of guitar designers in Southern California fitted instruments with an electromagnetic device called a pickup--and forever changed the face of popular music. Taken up by musicians as diverse as Les Paul, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, and the MC5, the electric guitar would become not...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Instruments_of_desire.html?hl=fr&id=-DWxyYapaBwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareInstruments of desire
