Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryMusical instruments
Founded1931 (1931)
FounderAdolph Rickenbacker
George Beauchamp
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Adolph Rickenbacker
George Beauchamp
ProductsElectric, acoustic, lap and console steel guitars, basses, amplifiers, electric violins, electric mandolins, electric banjos
Websiterickenbacker.com

Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. The company is credited as the first known maker of electric guitars – a steel guitar in 1932 – and today produces a range of electric guitars and basses.[1]

  1. ^ Bacon, Tony; Day, Paul (1994), The Rickenbacker Book, Miller Freeman Books, p. 9, ISBN 0-87930-329-8