The Sound Of Rock

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Term Paper Title	The Sound Of Rock
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The Sound of Rock
The first Marshall guitar amplifier

     Thoughts of music stir emotion from the depths of our being. The impact of music is both universal and omnipotent. There is not an era in the history of man where music is not present. Poets, painters, and even political theorists use musical terms such as "harmony" and "rhythm" to describe their world. This impact signifies music's importance to man. Each era of history, each stage of man, has its own musical ideas and methods. In modern times, the concept of music is extremely varied, more so than ever before. The genres in which one can partake of music are numerous. Classical, jazz, blues, folk, tribal... the list is seemingly endless.
     A few decades ago there was an rise in the genre of rock music. This was in part due to the reconstruction  of a classic instrument, the classical guitar, into the electric guitar. Following the basic design of a classical guitar, which in turn followed the lute of Elizabethan England, the guitar had evolved into the primary rock instrument. (Ardley 36,42,58) In order to be heard, the guitar had to be amplified. The first guitar amplifiers were based on radio technology of the time. (Fliegler)  As time progressed, people wanted more. Amplifiers became louder, and as they became louder they began to distort. The guitarists of early rock and roll avoided this distortion like the plague. As the attitude of the people changed, so did the music. As the 60's came into being, distortion was no longer deadly. By the late 50's and early 60's, guitarists liked to distort their guitar sound. It was not until Jim Marshall created his first guitar amp, the JTM 45, that distortion was fully used. Marshall defined the sound of rock in 1962 when he and electronics expert Ken Bran created the first Marshall amp. The JTM 45 changed the sound of rock music and increased the genre's popularity. Blues and jazz, the roots of rock, began to resurface. Jim Marshall's first guitar amplifier changed popular music, helping the musicians to better express the mood of their time.
     Since the early 20th century, radio broadcasting had caused electricity to play a part in music. The microphone was used to record and transmit music by converting sound waves into electrical signals. The pick-up on an electric guitar work by a similar principle. Each pickup contains six magnets (one for each string on a six string guitar). When the string of the guitar vibrates, it changes the magnetic field produ...

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