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The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms: * Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fitted with an electric pickup in similar fashion to many arch top guitars. * Solid body mandolins are common in 4-, 5-, and 8-string forms. * Acoustic electric and semi-acoustic mandolins also exist in many forms. ==History== Electric mandolins were built in the United States as early as the late 1920s. Among the first companies to produce them were Stromberg-Voisinet, Electro (which later became Rickenbacker), Vivi-Tone, and National Reso-Phonic. Gibson and Vega introduced their electric mandolins in 1936. In the United States, luthier/inventor Paul Bigsby began building solidbody electric mandolins (technically, they consisted of a solid wood core housing the electronics, with hollow wings forming the body) in 1949. His first one had 10 strings and was built for Al Giddings. Other Bigsby electric mandolin players were multi-instrumentalist Paul Buskirk, Johnny Muessig, and Eschol Cosby. Bigsby's most famous mandolin, built in 1952, was owned and played by Western swing musician Tiny Moore. This instrument had 5 single courses rather than the more common four double courses, and was patterned after a similar instrument built by Jim Harvey of La Jolla, California, for a player named Scotty Broyles. Gibson and Rickenbacker introduced solidbody 8-string mandolins in the 1950s,〔(Rickenbacker 5002V58 )〕 while Fender followed the single-course idea with its 4-string version. Since the 1970s, hundreds of individual luthiers have built electric mandolins. Kevin Schwab of Minneapolis, who has built them since 1982, is one of the most prolific and successful; his Telecaster-style instruments are widely considered to be among the most desirable and influential. A related instrument, the Bahian guitar, was developed in Brazil beginning in the 1940s. Bahian guitars typically have a solid body and 4 or 5 single-course strings tuned in fifths, but are considered to be electric versions of the cavaquinho rather than the mandolin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electric mandolin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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