Meet Hedley Jones, the UNKNOWN Jamaican Inventor who Beat LES PAUL to the Electric Guitar!

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In this video, we will examine the life and work of an extraordinary, little-known Jamaican inventor named Hedley Jones - who beat Les Paul, Bigsby, Fender, AND Gibson Guitars to the solid wood body Spanish electric guitar with his "Automatic Guitar" in 1940! But he didn't stop there. His accomplishments also include possibly being the first guitar amp maker to exceed 100 watts, the first to invent Jamaican "sound system culture", and one of the first to produce a DOUBLE-NECK electric guitar! So why doesn't anyone know about this man? Why isn't he on the cover of Premier Guitar, Vintage Guitar Magazine or Guitar World?
SOURCES:
https://youtu.be/SYz1MqeGH_c
http://skabook.com/pioneer-hedley-jones/
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2019/05/hedley-jones-feature
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/apple-cart_101499?profile=0
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hedley-jones-obituary-5pf0wmnl5
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/magazine/hedley-jones-pere-des-premiers-sound-systems
SPECIAL THANKS to Samson Woods for bringing Hedley Jones to my attention. This video would not have been made without him.
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