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Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex- Gibson executive Ted McCarty. In 1999, the brand was acquired by Gretsch from McCarty, which owned it until 2019, when Bigsby was sold to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
The Bigsby Electric Guitar company was founded in 1946, and although Bigsby specialized in steels (lap and pedal) he did make a handful of standard guitars that would come to shape the way all solidbody guitars would be made in the decades that followed.
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar. Bigsby is best known for designing the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (also mislabeled as a tremolo arm) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars.
Jul 22, 2022 · In the rapidly evolving electric guitar scene of the early 1950s, Paul Bigsby’s ‘one size fits all’ approach soon became unsustainable. For smaller semi-solid archtops, such as the Gretsch Duo Jet, Bigsby introduced a shorter version of the B6 with a scaled-down hinge called the B3.
Bigsby has produced a very few, limited edition, prototype guitars using many of the design features and ideas originally crafted by Paul Bigsby. The Bigsby prototype guitars are unique and specifications may vary from model to model.
Mar 30, 2017 · The Bigsby Solid Body Electric Guitar – the first electric model ever with a run of 23 units made. Bigsby was producing the first solid body electric guitars in the 1940’s. This pre-dates Fender by a stretch.
The Bigsby® vibrato tailpiece is a type of vibrato device for electric guitars. The top mount allows musicians to bend the pitch of notes or entire chords with their pick hand for various effects. The Bigsby Vibrato was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is technically the correct ...
