Instrument Tales on Instagram: "First electric guitar played live in 1932 in Wichita - the Ro-Pat-In, precursor to Rickenbacker In 1932, a groundbreaking invention forever changed the course of musical history: the Ro-Pat-In electric guitar, created by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker. This revolutionary instrument, the precursor to the iconic Rickenbacker guitars, would lay the foundation for the sound of rock and roll and popular music as we know it today. Prior to the 1930s, the guita