Rowe Industries was a manufacturer of guitar pickups and other music-related devices, as well as electrical components utilized in the aerospace industry into the 1980s.
The DeArmond Tremolo Control manufactured by Rowe Industries was the first music effects unit
Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar. The technique involves a string being fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion. This is in contrast to standard techniques that involve fretting with one hand and picking with the other. Tapping is the primary technique intended for instruments such as the Chapman Stick.
Niccolò Paganini, the 19th century violin master, one of the first innovators of musical instrument tapping.
Jazz guitarist Roy Smeck, seen in the 1926 short film His Pastimes, was an early popularizer of tapping.
Enver Izmailov, a strictly tapping Ukrainian folk and jazz guitar player in 2009.
Stanley Jordan, a jazz guitarist, relies extensively on tapping.