![]() But as you’ll see, the words have a long history of being confused. Oscillating pitch change is properly referred to as vibrato, not tremolo. Our focus is the history of musicians’ ability to oscillate the volume of a note, not its pitch. We’ll look at the first tremolo amps that appeared in the late 1940s, and we’ll conclude in 1963, when Fender introduced their then-radical photocell tremolo circuit. We’ll encounter the first electronic tremolo (created for organs, not guitars) and the first electronic guitar tremolo, which also happened to be the first electric guitar effect box. Obviously, there were no electric guitars then, but tremolo was being used as a musical device more than a millennium ago.Īfter exploring those origins, we’ll leap ahead to the mechanical tremolo contraptions of the 1800s, and finally, the electronic tremolo circuits of the 20 th century. But the search took me much further back: specifically, to the 9 th-century Byzantine Empire and 16 th-century Europe. You might think, as I did, that the story starts somewhere in the 1930s or ’40s. I set out to investigate the earliest recorded examples of guitarists using tremolo and the equipment they used to do it.
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