Though it would certainly go on to dominate prominent songs in the second half of the century, the humble guitar lacked the quantity to really suffice as a lead tool, and also hard-working strummers were having a hard time to hold their own along with horns, pianos as well as drums. Strenuous performance styles such as flamenco, which could involve the usage the guitar as a percussion instrument, phone call for a scratchplate to be fitted to nylon-string tools. The Tune-matic bridge (in the image above) introduced by Gibson on its Les Paul Custom-made in 1954 is an example of a taken care of

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