On this day in 1915 Lester William Polsfuss was born and a new era in Jazz and any other type of music was on the horizon. An accomplished musician, he work for Gibson in the Epiphone guitar factory in 1940. After hours he was busy creating "The Log", one of the first solid body guitars. Not the first nor the last but one to be reckoned with. Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed one in the 1930's and Leo Fender created his own in 1946.
The original Gibson Les Paul guitar regained it's popularity when Eric Clapton added it to his line-up of Gibsons and to this day is one of the most popular guitars on the market.
Happy Birthday Les wherever you are!
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