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Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid body electric guitar. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. 1 He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing also known as sound on sound,2delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention. 3His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. 4567 He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1. Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 8 He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an architect and a key inductee with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed. 9 Les Paul is the only person to be included in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. 1. Early lifeeditLes Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss1. Waukesha, Wisconsin, to George1. Evelyn Stutz Polsfuss. His family was of German ancestry. 1. Pauls mother was related to the founders of Milwaukees Valentin Blatz Brewing Company and the makers of the Stutz automobile. 1. His parents divorced when he was a child. 1. His mother simplified their Prussian family name first to Polfuss, then to Polfus, although Les Paul never legally changed his name. Before taking the stage name Les Paul, he also performed as Red Hot Red1. Rhubarb Red. 1. 6At the age of eight, Paul began playing the harmonica. After trying to learn the piano, he switched to the guitar. It was during this time that he invented a neck worn harmonica holder, which allowed him to play both sides of the harmonica hands free while accompanying himself on the guitar. It is still manufactured using his basic design. 1. By age thirteen, Paul was performing semi professionally as a country music singer, guitarist, and harmonica player. While playing at the Waukesha area drive ins and roadhouses, Paul began his first experiment with sound. Wanting to make himself heard by more people at the local venues, he wired a phonograph needle to his guitar and connected it to a radio speaker, using that to amplify his acoustic guitar. 1. As a teen Paul created his first solid body electric guitar using a 2 foot piece of rail from a nearby train line. 1. At age seventeen, Paul played with Rube Tronsons Texas Cowboys, and soon after he dropped out of high school to team up with Sunny Joe Wolvertons Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri, on KMOX. Early careereditPaul moved to Chicago in 1. WBBM and WLS. He met pianist Art Tatum, whose playing influenced him to stick with the guitar rather than original plans of taking on the piano. 2. His first two records were released in 1. Rhubarb Red, Pauls hillbilly alter ego. He also served as an accompanist for a few other bands signed to Decca. During this time he began adding different sounds and adopted his stage name of Les Paul. 2. Pauls guitar style was strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, whom he greatly admired. 2. Following World War II, Paul sought out and made friends with Reinhardt. When Reinhardt died in 1. Paul paid for part of the funerals cost. 2. One of Pauls prized possessions was a Selmer Maccaferri acoustic guitar given to him by Reinhardts widow. 1. Paul formed a trio in 1. Jim Atkins2. 4 older half brother of guitarist Chet Atkins and bassistpercussionist Ernie Darius Newton. They left Chicago for New York in 1. Fred Warings Pennsylvanians radio show. Chet Atkins later wrote that his brother, home on a family visit, presented him with an expensive Gibson archtop guitar that Les Paul had given to Jim. Chet recalled that it was the first professional quality instrument he ever owned. 2. Paul was dissatisfied with acoustic electric guitars and began experimenting at his apartment in Queens, New York with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created several versions of The Log, which was a length of common 4x. For the sake of appearance, he attached the body of an Epiphone hollow body guitar sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved his two main problems feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body. These instruments were constantly being improved and modified over the years, and Paul continued to use them in his recordings long after the development of his eponymous Gibson model. In 1. 94. 5, Richard D. Bourgerie made an electric guitar pickup and amplifier for professional guitar player George Barnes. Bourgerie worked through World War II at Howard Radio Company making electronic equipment for the American military. Barnes showed the result to Les Paul, who arranged for Bourgerie to have one made for him. While experimenting in his apartment in 1. Paul nearly succumbed to electrocution. During two years of recuperation, he moved to Hollywood, supporting himself by producing radio music and forming a new trio. During this time, he was remembered by factory workers as a frequent visitor to the Electro String Instrument Corp. Western Avenue in Los Angeles, where he observed production of Rickenbacker brand guitars and amplifiers. He was drafted into the U. S. Army in 1. 94. Armed Forces Radio Network, backing such artists as Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and performing in his own right. 2. As a last minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul played with Nat King Cole and other artists in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles, California, on July 2, 1. His solo on Body and Soul is a demonstration both of his admiration for and emulation of the playing of Django Reinhardt, as well as his development of original lines. Also that year, Pauls trio appeared on Bing Crosbys radio show. Crosby sponsored Pauls recordings. They recorded together several times, including Its Been a Long, Long Time, which was a No. Paul recorded a few albums for Decca Records in the 1. He was enamoured by The Andrews Sisters, who hired his trio to open for them during a tour in 1. Their manager, Lou Levy, said watching Pauls fingers while he played guitar was like watching a train go by. 2. Their conductor, Vic Schoen, said his playing was always original. 2. Maxine Andrews said, Hed tune into the passages we were singing and lightly play the melody, sometimes in harmony. Wed sing these fancy licks and hed keep up with us note for note in exactly the same rhythm. But he never once took the attention away from what we were doing. He did everything he could to make us sound better. 2. In the 1. 95. 0s, when he recorded Mary Pauls vocals on multiple tracks, he created music that sounded like The Andrews Sisters. 2. In January 1. 94. Paul shattered his right arm and elbow in a near fatal automobile accident on an icy Route 6. Davenport, Oklahoma.