Les Paul was born William Polsfuss [June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009] and is considered a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar. He is known as the other half of the famous Les Paul and Mary Ford duo and was inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
In honor of Les Paul’s birthday, Google created an interactive logo shaped like a guitar with strings that really play, this as part of their ongoing creative forays into representing their basic Google logo.
The doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas (used in modern browsers to draw the guitar strings), CSS, Flash (for sound) and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine.
Read more in the Google blog describing their efforts in honor of Les Paul. To hear the melody and watch the guitar strings being plucked, click the image above or Interactive guitar logo
For more information about Les Paul visit The Les Paul Foundation
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