who felt the rights to their innovations had been snatched away by an unscrupulous business partner .
Another unique facet of these patents is that they could be vague about features that were not claimed in the paten filing . Although Dr . Hill did not believe the Breed guitar to be the first truly electric guitar , that did not prevent him from being part of a collaborative team the endeavored to build one of these guitars based on the patent filings . This team included Rickenbacker C . E . O . John Hall , the significance of which is tethered to the Rickenbacher Electro which we ’ ll be discussing in the next issue .
One of the interesting facets of Reconstructive Organology is the adherence to the original design when and where possible . While it appears that Dr . Hill and his team believe that Breed did in fact build a working model for his design , they did not have one on hand for this project . Tragically , it is entirely possible that any instruments that Breed did build have been destroyed in the hundred plus years since