When was the first electric model made of the type of instrument played by Jim Creeggan?
the 1930s
Title: Orchestral Favorites
Passage: Orchestral Favorites is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. The album is instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra.
Title: Bass guitar
Passage: In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally. The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his ``Model 736 Bass Fiddle '', a four - stringed, solid - bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30 ⁄ - inch (775 - millimetre) scale length. The adoption of a guitar's body shape made the instrument easier to hold and transport than any of the existing stringed bass instruments. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily than on fretless acoustic or electric upright basses. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period.
Title: The Brothers Creeggan
Passage: The Brothers Creeggan is a Canadian alternative rock/jazz band composed of Jim Creeggan (upright bass, guitar, bass guitar, vocals), Andy Creeggan (guitar, piano, accordion, percussion, vocals) and Ian McLauchlan (drums). The group has released four albums: "The Brothers Creeggan" (1993), "The Brothers Creeggan II" (1997), "Trunks" (2000) and "Sleepyhead" (2002).
Title: Munch Man
Passage: Munch Man is a video game written by Jim Dramis for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer and published as a cartridge by Texas Instruments in 1982. Based on Namco's "Pac-Man", "Munch Man" includes several variations that alter and enhance gameplay. Dramis later wrote "Parsec" for the TI-99/4A.
Title: The First Seven Days
Passage: The First Seven Days is an album recorded by jazz musician Jan Hammer in 1975. It features extensive use of synthesizers, including the synthesized "guitar" parts (as on his follow-up album, "Oh Yeah?"), with the record jacket stating, "For those concerned: there is "no guitar" on this album." Other instruments used are grand piano, electric violin and percussion.
Bass guitar The Brothers Creeggan