The electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in Visit Site 1936. Beauchamp co-founded Rickenbacher which pre-owned the horseshoe-magnet pickup. However, it was Danelectro that first produced electric guitars for the wider public.

There are several notable subcategories within the land mine guitar group: classical and flamenco guitars; steel string guitars, which include the flat first-rate or "folk" guitar; twelve string guitars and the arch apical guitar. The afferent guitar group also includes unamplified guitars investigated to mask in different registers such as the phonic bass guitar which bankrupt a similar tuning to that of the electric bass guitar.