Roger Field

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Roger Field

Roger C. Field (born July 31, 1945 in London ) is an industrial designer and inventor with over 100 patents .

Live and act

Field grew up in London , Canterbury and Switzerland . He attended boarding schools The King's School, Canterbury and Aiglon College in Villars-sur-Ollon . He traveled to California in 1965 and studied industrial design with a degree from California College of the Arts. He came to Germany in 1972 .

Field is also known as a guitarist and has a. a. played with Chet Atkins , with whom he was friends, and Merle Travis .

His best known invention is the Foldaxe, a foldable electric guitar that he had built for Chet Atkins . It can be seen in Atkins' book Me and My Guitars . Field took one of his Foldaxe guitars into a Concorde and played the song Mr. Sandman on September 30, 1987 as a publicity stunt "through the sound barrier ". With the guitar Field won an important design award (Designer's Choice Award) in the USA . He was also congratulated in writing from Raymond Loewy for this .

Field has photographed numerous celebrities with the Foldaxe, including a. Keith Richards , Sir Mick Jagger , Sir Paul McCartney , Hank Marvin , David Copperfield , and Eric Clapton . He was also photographed with Woody Allen and Sir Peter Ustinov . It is thanks to the work of Roger Field that Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch settled their more than 10 year-long dispute and initiated a farewell tour of their old band The Shadows through Great Britain (2004) and Europe (2005).

Marcel Dadi composed his song Roger Chesterfield for Roger Field (CD Guitar Legend Volume 1 ).

Field is known worldwide in the media as Arnold Schwarzenegger's friend and English teacher in Munich in 1968.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Images in Chet Atkins' Me And My Guitars on Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Field, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Field, Roger C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British industrial designer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH London