Poly and his guitar

Angelo Apollonius or Poly (Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 8, 1920 - Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 10, 1985) was a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, bass, guitar, Hawaiian guitar) & Brazilian composer, and since 10 years demonstrated skill with stringed instruments.
As part of the pre-pre-Beatles and Hendrix, it is important to note some peculiarities in its footprint, like, not necessarily a distance of rock'n'roll, but a lack of evidence that rock brought later to the guitar that made the current paradigm of the electric guitar.
Its clean sound, ie without the effects of distortion - popularized from the late 60's until the present day - with a similar timbre of jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery, but without the harmonic sophistication of the guitarists in this style .
This is due to the fact that use Poly-acoustic guitars, usually using the neck pickup alone or mixed with the bridge.
But his biggest gap was the unusual use for the time of the technique known as lap steel slide. Finding it impossible to use the neck pickup to play notes on guitar hyperacute beyond the boundary of the mirror guitar (C # 5, D5 and E5, being respectively the frets 21, 22 and 24), he used the pickup in the bridge Hawaiian guitars to make an effect like the neighing of horses, rubbing the slide near the end of the strings in the region where the mirror of the guitar.
Such use of lap steel, has been popularized worldwide by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd many years later, but apparently without direct influence of Poly.

Besides the lap steel (guitar lying on the lap slide with the left hand), we can palm mute, double stops. The factory of musical instruments Giannini made his signature guitar, or instrument tribute in his honor, Giannini named Apollo, is a very famous model and currently of great value for collectors of vintage instruments.
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