Is Einstein’s photograph with electrihitar?

For many years, a photo of the famous physicist has been walking over the network, in which he is captured with a guitar in his hands. We checked whether this is a real picture.

The photo went around not only Russian -speaking entertainment sites ("Useful notes","Personality"), But also got into the online version biographical book Vitaly Wulf about Einstein. It received special distribution in social networks: for example, Facebook has publications with 240 And 49 reposts at the time of writing this analysis. This photo is popular and on foreign sites.

Albert Einstein is known all over the world as a great physicist, but he himself, according to biographers, Recognizedthat if not for the career of a scientist, he would become a musician. The main guide for the world of music for Einstein was the violin with which he I met At the age of six and since then he has not parted until the end of his life. “Life without playing music is inconceivable for me,” said the Nobel Prize laureate, whose favorite composers were Mozart and Bach. Einstein played more than once at chamber concerts of classical music, and exists A lot Photoson which he is captured with his favorite tool. In 2018, one of his violins Left at auction for $ 516,000. In addition, thinking about any scientific idea, Einstein sometimes played on piano.

The famous scientist died in 1955 in the United States, where by that time he had already blossomed Electric Blue and approached the peak of popularity rock and roll - Two genres of popular music, in the development of which the spread of electrihitars played the most important role. However, not a single solid biographical publication reports that the great physicist has ever experienced a passion for popular music. On the contrary, by memories The playwright of Jerome Weidman, once Einstein proved Bach's genius in contrast to his friend, putting on a player one after another, the pop notes of recent years that seemed primitive to him. Also, “verified” did not find a single evidence that Albert Einstein had ever picked up a guitar, especially electric.

If you pay attention to the tool captured in the picture, you can notice the logo:

Before us is the company's products PEAVEYfounded in 1965, and specifically the model Razerwho entered the market in August 1983. Of course, Einstein could not hold this guitar in her hands, she appeared after his death. And in general, like Mark Specialized publications, the model did not become popular among performers and lovers. One of the few famous musicians who played such a guitar was the American Bluesman James Lewis Carter Ford, known under the pseudonym T-Model Ford. He loved his tool very much called his "black nanny" and glue On the body of the guitar of the letter The Tale Dragger (distorted Taildragger - another nickname Ford).

Such an inscription decorates a photo with supposedly Einstein, and the original picture can be found on many sites dedicated to the blues, as in the article The Telegraph. As can be seen from the comparison of two photographs, someone through the graphic editor added the image of Einstein's head to the original picture with Ford.

Einstein's head in an mounted picture was taken with a mirror photos 1930s. If you believe the Tineye service, distribute on the Internet collage Started no later than summer 2009. Of course, users who often shared photography They did not hide The humorous orientation of the publication, however, many readers took the picture seriously, as evidenced by cases of its use in thematic articles, and sometimes attempts to challenge the authenticity of the picture.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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