Remembering Jim Dunlop - Adirondack Guitar

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An Influential Pioneer of Guitar Accessories Who Helped Shape Modern Music In the history of modern music, few figures have been as influential as Jim Dunlop. An engineer by trade, Jim Dunlop worked as a machinist to support his family, but devoted his spare time to creating guitar accessories that would revolutionize the world of music. Over the years Dunlop has been credited with reinventing the finger-pick and the flat pick by experimenting with varying shapes, gauges and materials based on feedback from working musicians. Soon he branched out into to slides and kept the American tradition of slide guitar alive by creating a line of slides of varying sizes, thicknesses and materials. In the 1980‘s, Dunlop’s engineering background would pay off as his company branched out into effects, acquiring and refining the Crybaby Wah and MXR effects pedals, creating