Jim Marshall (Entrepreneur)

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Marshall signing (2007)
Gift plaque for the 40th company anniversary

James Charles "Jim" Marshall , OBE , (born July 29, 1923 in Kensington , London ; †  April 5, 2012 ) was a British pioneer in the field of guitar amplifiers and known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud .

Life

As a child, Marshall suffered from bone tuberculosis and as a teenager was forced to go to work to support the family. At the same time, he was already active as a musician, primarily a drummer. Marshall was retired during World War II and worked in an armaments electronics company. During this time he taught himself electrical engineering and even became the company's chief electronics engineer . After the Second World War he gave drum lessons and in 1960 he used the proceeds to set up a small music business in Harnwell. When his store customers (such as Ritchie Blackmore and Pete Townshend ) asked for an amplifier with certain characteristics, he and his employee Dudley Craven started producing this new amplifier. That led to the founding of Marshall Amplification in 1962 . From the small manufacture one of the most famous guitar amplifier companies in the world developed. Marshall died of cancer at the age of 88 in a hospice in London.

Awards

In 1984 and 1992, Queen Elizabeth II presented Jim Marshall Products Limited with The Queens Award For Export Achievement . In 2002 the Association of the German Music Trade presented Jim Marshall with a plaque of honor on the occasion of the company's 40th anniversary. The College of Music in the USA awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II made him officer of the Order of the British Empire .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/jim-marshall-dies-aged-88-538243
  2. ↑ bbc.co.uk: note of death (English) accessed on April 6, 2012
  3. ↑ Jim Marshall: 'They call me the Father of Loud'
  4. ↑ Mike Collett-White: Guitar amplifier pioneer Jim Marshall dies aged 88. Reuters , April 5, 2012, accessed December 28, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b c Edgar Klüsener: When a drummer taught guitarists how to make noise , Der Spiegel , November 13, 2004
  6. ↑ a b Doglas Martin: Jim Marshall, Maker of Famed fuzzy Amplifiers, this at 88 , New York Times , April 5, 2012 (Accessed on April 8, 2012)
  7. ↑ Torsten Hampel: Make it louder. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshall, James Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pioneer in the field of guitar amps
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensington , London
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2012
Place of death London