Name Dave Bunker | ||
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David "Dave" Douglas Bunker is a guitar designer, entertainer, guitar manufacturer and author.
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Dave bunker plays exodus on his touch guitar
Career
Dave Bunker is the inventor of seven US patents relating to the improvement of electric guitars, bass guitars and Touch Guitars. The first, patent #2,989,884 issued in 1961, was for the "Duo-Lectar" instrument, later in 1970 known as the Touch Guitar. This was the second patented string instrument in America, designed and patented specifically for Tapping/Touching. Another was for the "The Astral series", a wedge design, reverse tuning guitar, in 1966. In the late 1970s, he invented the "Pro-star" guitars and basses.
In 1990, Bunker founded a new guitar company in Pennsylvania, "PBC Guitar Technology". This company was the first USA company to build American made guitars and basses for Ibanez Guitars of Japan. In 1999, Bunker Guitars purchased PBC Guitars and moved the company to Washington State.