Automatic Chord Guitar
Patent Filed 1965
Dad and Mom were both interested in music and playing music
when I was growing up. Dad’s specialty
was boogie woogie piano, and he could play those bass lines and wail a swing
tune with the best of them. I was lucky
to pick up some musical talent from both my parents.
I don’t know where he got the idea for the auto guitar
pictured below, but it is probably similar to an auto harp and would be a great
learning tool in schools. When he built
the first prototype I was 12 years old.
I picked this thing up, and although I wasn’t interested in the auto
mechanism, playing the guitar itself attracted me and this became the first
guitar I ever played. From then on,
playing guitar became something that I could never live without.
