Washington's Music Inventions, Sung and Unsung

  Grunge

Whoever “invented” grunge, whether it was Mudhoney, Sub Pop Records, or the attendant media frenzy, its raw and unpolished rumble came to define the Seattle sound in the ears of the world and influence generations of rockers to come.

Whammy Bar

Floyd Rose, a jeweler and aspiring musician, designed a vibrato arm that, unlike earlier models, locked the guitar’s strings in place and prevented a six-string from losing its tune whilst musicians wailed on it.

Vinyl

Longtime Washingtonian Waldo Semon formulated the novel substance that became one of the world’s most widely used plastics. Plasticized polyvinyl chloride, unique at the time

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