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There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric. An acoustic guitar has a wooden top and a hollow body. An electric guitar may be a solid-body or hollow body instrument, which is made louder by using a pickup and plugging it into a guitar amplifier and speaker. Another type of guitar is the low-pitched bass guitar.
Electric guitar design is a type of industrial design where the looks and efficiency of the shape as well as the acoustical aspects of the guitar are important factors. In the past many guitars have been designed with various odd shapes as well as very practical and convenient solutions to improve the usability of the object.
The traditional Stratocaster design guitar features three single coils. [4] The guitarist can control which pickup or combination of pickups are selected with a lever switch . The pickup positions are usually referred to as the bridge , middle and neck pickups based on their proximity to those parts of the instrument.
Greg Smallman (born 19 June 1947 in Cronulla, Australia) is the first internationally successful non-traditional Australian guitar-maker.He is known worldwide for his innovative guitar designs [1] [2] Although his guitars are in outward appearance similar to a traditional Spanish classical guitar, there are numerous innovative differences.
Early romantic guitar (Paris around 1830) by Jean-Nicolas Grobert (1794–1869). *String scale-length: 635 mm. Instrument top shows signatures of Paganini and Berlioz.The guitar was loaned to Paganini by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in 1838 and later given by Vuillaume to Berlioz, [1] who later donated it to the Musée du Conservatoire de musique in 1866.
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The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar model introduced by Gibson in 1961, [1] following on from the 1952 Gibson Les Paul. It remains in production today in many variations of the initial design. SG stands for "solid guitar". [2]
Image credits: toptrot #4. My high school used to have a d**g project where we’d have to give a presentation on a certain d**g. There was a little thing on how it’s made, like in a lab or it ...