# Del Casher, inventor of the wah-wah pedal, dead at 88

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/del-casher-inventor-of-the-wah-wah-pedal-dead-at-88/
- Published: 2026-11-09T12:22:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T13:38:56+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/del-casher-inventor-wah-wah-pedal-dead-88/
- Topics: Health, Medicine

## Key points

- Del Casher, inventor of the wah-wah pedal, has died aged 88.
- He developed the effect in the 1960s to imitate a trumpet.
- His work reached from Hendrix to Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft”.

## Summary

Del Casher, the musician and inventor associated with the wah-wah pedal, has died aged 88. His work helped shape the sound of rock guitar, with the effect used by artists including Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, and later heard across rock and soul music.

Casher developed the pedal in the 1960s while playing with the Thomas Organ Company’s Vox Ampliphonic Orchestra, seeking to make his guitar sound like a trumpet. He died on 1 October after battling cancer, according to a fundraiser set up to support his wife, Eiko, who is 89 and has health problems. The fundraiser said the couple had faced financial strain after COVID-19 damaged Casher’s studio business; his other inventions included the Ecco-Fonic and Fender Electronic Echo Chamber, and he worked with Elvis Presley.

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