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Google Celebrates Les Paul’s Birthday With Playable Google-Doodle
June 9, 2011 It is hard to imagine your favorite song without the electric guitar. Les Paul, the inventor of the electric guitar would have been 96. So,Today, Google is paying tribute to the late guitar pioneer Les Paul with a guitar-themed doodle that allows users to play it and record songs of their own.
The doodle, which was designed by engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick, will be up for 24 hours, and was released to celebrate what would have been Paul's 96th birthday. (Paul, a leader in the development of the solid-body electric guitar, died of complications from pneumonia in 2009.)