Alvino Rey
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Alvin McBurney, known by his stage name Alvino Rey, was an American jazz guitarist and bandleader.
Rey in c.1942
Talk box
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A talk box is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds onto the sounds of the instrume
Alvino Rey
…Gibson's first electric guitar, the ES-150. The prototype is kept in the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. In 1939, Rey invented an early version of a "talk box" device that modified the sound of his electric steel guitar to sound like words. For performances of his big band, he created an animated mechanical…
Peter Frampton's talk box
Weezer guitarist Brian Bell with a talk box, the tube being attached to the microphone (2022)