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Born in Switzerland and moving to the United States as a child, he settled in Los Angeles in 1928. His Rickenbacher Manufacturing Company made metal bodies for National Steel Guitars beginning in the 1920s. It was through this connection that Rickenbacher met George Beauchamp and Paul Barth , and in 1931 the three founded the Ro-Pat-In Company. In 1932 they produced the first cast aluminum versions of the Lap Steel Guitar . In 1934 the company was renamed the '''Electro String Instrument Corporation'''. By the time production ceased in 1939, about 2,700 ''Frying Pan'' lap steel guitars had been produced. EXTERNAL LINKS
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