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Ana Vidović (born 8 November 1980 [2]) is a Croatian classical guitarist. A guitarist child prodigy , she has won a number of prizes and international competitions all over the world. Early life
Jim Redgate is an Australian classical guitar luthier, who owns Redgate Guitars.As of 2012, he makes four models, the lattice-braced, the double-top, and the new wave double-top and traditional fan-braced.
His sister, Ana, was introduced to music by him and eventually became an internationally recognised guitar virtuoso. At 12, he had his first solo concert. At 13, he was awarded first place at competitions in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia , coming far in front of rivals, generations above him.
The first commercially successful solid-body instrument was the Rickenbacker frying pan lap steel guitar, produced from 1931 to 1939. The first commercially available non lap steel electric guitar was also produced by the Rickenbacker/Electro company, starting in 1931 The model was referred to as the "electric Spanish Guitar" to distinguish it from the "Hawaiian" lap steel.
Nicola Hall (born 1969), award-winning guitarist who has recorded her own guitar transcriptions of classical works; Victoria Kingsley (1900–2000), classical guitarist, toured the world singing to the accompaniment of her guitar; Alexandra Whittingham (* 1997), classical guitarist and educator
The Gibson Chet Atkins CEC was a classical electric guitar manufactured by Gibson and released in 1982. [1] Developed with guitarist Chet Atkins and Kentucky luthier Hascal Haile, [2] the Chet Atkins CEC (Cutaway Electric Classical) merged solid-body electric guitar with classical guitar, resulting in a nylon-string instrument that could be played at high volumes in large auditoriums without ...
The "bolt-on" method is used frequently on solid body electric guitars and on acoustic flattop guitars. In the typical electric guitar neck joint, the body and neck cross in horizontal plane. The neck is inserted into a pre-routed opening in the body (which is commonly called a "pocket"), and then joined using three to four screws.
The SST was a design that combined Gibson's steel-string acoustic and electric guitar technology. [2] The guitar had a solid spruce or cedar top and a mahogany body. Unlike most acoustic-electrics, the SST had no resonating chamber or soundhole. The acoustic sound came from a bridge mounted transducer manufactured by L.R. Baggs for Gibson with ...