As we reported earlier this month, PRS appeared to be teasing one thing associated to the late, nice Theodore “Ted” McCarty.

Because it seems, that was a brand new full-length documentary celebrating the guitar innovator’s life, full of archival interview footage, in addition to new interviews with PRS head honcho Paul Reed Smith, McCarty’s daughter Sue Davis, and numerous PRS workers. And the 73-minute doc is accessible to observe proper now at PRS’s YouTube channel.

Ted McCarty served as vp of the Gibson Guitar Company in 1949, and later as president between 1950 and 1966. The person behind the Tune-O-Matic bridge – additionally working alongside Les Paul to develop the Les Paul guitar format – McCarty was additionally partially answerable for the humbucking pickup alongside engineer Seth Lover, in addition to the Explorer, Flying V, SG, ES-335 and Firebird.

As PRS explains, Paul Reed Smith first found McCarty’s title within the US Patent workplace within the early ‘80s, and later enrolled him as a producing and enterprise advisor. PRS launched its first McCarty mannequin in 1994, and continues to honour him with new guitar designs. Ted McCarty sadly died in 2001 on the age of 91.

“Ted McCarty was a legend. Extremely good. Actually distinctive,” says Paul Reed Smith. “He was a champion, an trade icon, a frontrunner, a mentor, a buddy. Ultimately, he was household.”

“For those who ask anybody who’s an skilled over the age of fifty, ‘Are you able to train me,’ they are saying ‘Okay, I’ll train,’ as a result of they don’t wish to die and have their gems of data not be handed on,” he continues. “Ted was a chief instance of that. He wished his information base to be handed on, and he determined to go it on to us (at PRS Guitars), which I liked.”

“There isn’t any higher time to replicate on our historical past than as we shut our fortieth anniversary,” provides PRS Guitars COO Jack Higginbotham. 

“Ted is part of our basis. He’s central to who we’re. As we proceed to develop the corporate and evolve and create new devices, he’s basic in our thought processes of constructing nice devices. Ted will all the time be part of the story of PRS Guitars because it goes ahead.” 

“I really feel so proud that PRS has as soon as once more honoured my dad – this time via an ideal video tribute to his life and affect – and I’m delighted and honored to have been part of this venture as nicely,” says Ted McCarty’s daughter Sue Davis. 

“When Paul requested my dad to place his title on a guitar, dad wasn’t so certain anybody would wish to purchase it. Paul and PRS have made certain that the title Ted McCarty – and the person that he was – will likely be remembered for a very long time to come back. And for that, I couldn’t be extra grateful.”

You possibly can watch the total documentary, The Legacy of Ted McCarty, beneath, or at PRS’s official YouTube channel.