<P> Plunkett had lifted and bread - boarded a transistorized tone - circuit from the Thomas Organ ( an electric solid state transistorized organ ) to duplicate the Jennings 3 - position circuit . After adjusting and testing the amplifier with an electronic oscillator and oscilloscope , Plunkett connected the output to the speaker and tested the circuit audibly . At that point , several engineers and technical consultants , including Bill Page and Del Casher , noticed the sound effect caused by the circuit . Page insisted on testing this bread - boarded circuit while he played his saxophone through an amplifier . John Glennon , an assistant junior electronics engineer with the Thomas Organ Company , was summoned to bring a volume control pedal which was used in the Vox Continental Organ so that the transistorized MRB potentiometer bread - boarded circuit could be installed in the pedal 's housing . After the installation , Page began playing his saxophone through the pedal and had asked Joe Banaron , CEO of Warwick Electronics Inc. / Thomas Organ Company , to listen to the effect . At this point the first electric guitar was plugged into the prototype wah pedal by guitarist Del Casher who suggested to Joe Banaron that this was a guitar effects pedal rather than a wind instrument effects pedal . Banaron , being a fan of the big band style of music , was interested in marketing the wah pedal for wind instruments as suggested by Page rather than for the electric guitar as suggested by Casher . After a remark by Casher to Banaron regarding the Harmon mute style of trumpet playing in the famous recording of `` Sugar Blues '' from the 1930s , Banaron decided to market the wah - wah pedal using Clyde McCoy 's name for endorsement . </P>
<P> Plunkett had lifted and bread - boarded a transistorized tone - circuit from the Thomas Organ ( an electric solid state transistorized organ ) to duplicate the Jennings 3 - position circuit . After adjusting and testing the amplifier with an electronic oscillator and oscilloscope , Plunkett connected the output to the speaker and tested the circuit audibly . At that point , several engineers and technical consultants , including Bill Page and Del Casher , noticed the sound effect caused by the circuit . Page insisted on testing this bread - boarded circuit while he played his saxophone through an amplifier . John Glennon , an assistant junior electronics engineer with the Thomas Organ Company , was summoned to bring a volume control pedal which was used in the Vox Continental Organ so that the transistorized MRB potentiometer bread - boarded circuit could be installed in the pedal 's housing . After the installation , Page began playing his saxophone through the pedal and had asked Joe Banaron , CEO of Warwick Electronics Inc. / Thomas Organ Company , to listen to the effect . At this point the first electric guitar was plugged into the prototype wah pedal by guitarist Del Casher who suggested to Joe Banaron that this was a guitar effects pedal rather than a wind instrument effects pedal . Banaron , being a fan of the big band style of music , was interested in marketing the wah pedal for wind instruments as suggested by Page rather than for the electric guitar as suggested by Casher . After a remark by Casher to Banaron regarding the Harmon mute style of trumpet playing in the famous recording of `` Sugar Blues '' from the 1930s , Banaron decided to market the wah - wah pedal using Clyde McCoy 's name for endorsement . </P>
who was the first guitarist to use a wah wah pedal
who was the first guitarist to use a wah wah pedal
Del Casher
Del Casher