Rickenbacker Can’t Make Guitars Fast Enough

The company that made the first electric guitar and whose instruments were popularized by the Beatles in the 1960s can’t make them fast enough. “We’re back-ordered two years,” company owner John Hall said. So he raised prices on all 6- and 12-string guitars and basses by as much as 20 percent this year to cool demand. “It hasn’t completely done that,” he admitted.