Models

Silvertone 1448

Student-model electric guitar family

Electric guitar · United States

An entry-level electric sold by Sears under the Silvertone name and built by Danelectro, famous for shipping in a carrying case with a built-in tube amplifier and speaker. It introduced countless American teenagers to electric guitar in the early 1960s.

Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle

Early solid-body electric bass guitar

A solid-body, fretted electric bass guitar developed by Paul Tutmarc and marketed by his Audiovox Manufacturing Company in Seattle from around 1936. With four strings, a roughly 30.5-inch scale, and a single pickup, it is widely regarded as the first electric bass guitar, predating the Fender Precision Bass by about fifteen years.