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The Les Paul Google Doodle

By Rain Noe - June 9, 2011

in Tech | Graphic Design

Today's Google Doodle is a sweet homage to Les Paul, the musician and electric guitar pioneer who would have celebrated his 96th birthday today. While Paul didn't technically invent the electric guitar, he did solve the problem of feedback with his solid-body model, developed in his apartment in Queens, New York in the 1940s.

The Les Paul Google Doodle allows you to digitally play the guitar on their homepage. Strumming by mouse/trackpad is fun if tricky; but hit the black button below the strings, which enables you to play by keyboard, and then you're off to the races.

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Joel Kennington

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who designed the Doodle what was the proces for this design has the designer designed other cool stuff like this come on we want more info
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AustinAngela

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This is by far my favorite Google Doodle. RIP Mr. Paul.
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Dan

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Actually the black button at the bottom allows one to record what they've played on the doodle, then loop it back and play over it or just listen to what's been played. The guitar can be activated by one's keyboard any time after using the record feature once; it's a major scale starting at the "A" key and going up to "K" through the middle row. Pretty neat!
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