Eddie Rosenwal Photograph, Electric Violin

. 8" x 10" sepia photograph of Eddie Rosenwald who in 1939 began playing the Vega Electric Violin. The Boston listeners to the radio program enjoyed the sound and it soon became a popular instrument to add to sound recordings. Eddie Rosenwald influenced Scotty MacLean to use it in his playing at the Hotel Victoria in New York. Soon a number of Jazz musicians used it and by the late 1960's Pape John Creach and Doug Kershaw were using it in live and recorded performances.