George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an inventor of musical instruments and a co-founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars.
•
In 1931 he joined with Paul Barth and Adolph Rickenbacker to form the Ro-Pat-In Corporation to produce and sell electrified string instruments.
The company was formed by John Dopyera, the luthier who invented the resonator, and George Beauchamp, a steel guitar player who had suggested to Dopyera the need for a guitar loud enough to play a melody over brass and other wind instruments.
In the mid-1920s George Beauchamp, a Los Angeles, California guitarist, began experimentation with electric amplification of the guitar.
George W. Bush | George Washington | George H. W. Bush | George | George Bernard Shaw | Order of St Michael and St George | George Gershwin | George Orwell | George Harrison | George Clooney | George III of the United Kingdom | George Frideric Handel | David Lloyd George | George Washington University | George Lucas | Saint George | George III | George Michael | George Pataki | George Clinton | George S. Patton | George IV of the United Kingdom | George Soros | George V | George Balanchine | George Armstrong Custer | George Jones | George II of Great Britain | George VI | George Mason University |
George Beauchamp Vick (1901–1975), known as G. Beauchamp Vick, was pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan from 1950 to the 1970s.
In their 1930 catalog, National list eight key associates, including Adolph Rickenbacker, George Beauchamp, Harry Watson, Paul Barth, and Jack Levy.