Archive for Historical Significance
A stroll through the USPTO, courtesy Google
While cleaning up the hard drive on my laptop, I came across a list of patents I’d found via Google’s Patent Search. Only one of them has anything to do with hollowbody basses, but they’re fun to look at. If you find any cool/historic/unique patents that I missed, post a link in the comments! Up [...]
Gibson’s First Electric Bass (For really real.)
A few years ago, I visited the EMP and was able to see what I thought was Gibson’s first electric hollowbody bass. Turns out I was actually looking at Gibson’s second electric bass. Oddly enough, the University of South Dakota is home to the National Music Museum, which houses over 10,000 musical instruments from all [...]