Who invented the palm mute?

It was sent back in time and created it's own existence; bootstrap paradox.
 
Chet Atkins and Les Paul were palm muting; no one knows who was actually first.

The first known guitarist to palm mute strings was Miguel Llobet, Spanish classical guitarist, famous in the 1900s.

Others likely did it before him, but didn't get credit or weren't well-known enough to remember?

History matters.
 
Chet Atkins and Les Paul were palm muting; no one knows who was actually first.

The first known guitarist to palm mute strings was Miguel Llobet, Spanish classical guitarist, famous in the 1900s.

Others likely did it before him, but didn't get credit or weren't well-known enough to remember?

History matters.
Chuck Berry, too. Palm muting all of those rhythms during the verses.
 
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Don’t think it would matter who did it before gainier amps started being used. It would have just sounded lame.
 

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