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Paul Bigsby
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899-1968) was the designer of the Bigsby vibrato arm (also known as a tremolo arm) and proprietor of Bigsby Guitars. He built an early steel guitar for Southern California steel guitarist Earl "Joaquin" Murphy of Spade Cooley's band, then built an electric guitar conceptualized by Merle Travis to have the same level of sustain as a steel guitar by anchoring the strings in the body instead of on a tailpiece.
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