Bigsby Electric Guitars
American guitar brand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Formerly | Bigsby Electric Guitar Company[citation needed] |
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Company type | Private (1946–66) Brand (1966–present) |
Industry | Musical instruments |
Founded | 1946; 78 years ago (1946) |
Founder | Paul Bigsby |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Paul Bigsby, Ted McCarty, Fred Gretsch |
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Owner | |
Website | bigsby.com |
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An early innovator of solid body electric guitars and accessories, the company was the first to introduce a guitar headstock that had all of its tuning pegs on the same side. This design was later adopted by manufacturers such as Fender for their Telecaster and Stratocaster models. Most well known, however, was the development of the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, a wildly popular vibrato arm for guitars that was installed on their own models, as well as numerous other companies such as Gretsch, Gibson, Ibanez and many others.