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  2. Electric guitar - Wikipedia

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    An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers .

  3. Guitar - Wikipedia

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    The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand.

  4. Gibson Les Paul - Wikipedia

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    The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. [1] The guitar was designed by factory manager John Huis and his team with input from and endorsement by guitarist Les Paul. Its typical design features a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top and a single cutaway, a mahogany ...

  5. Vibrato systems for guitar - Wikipedia

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    Vibrato systems for guitar. A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings. It adds vibrato to the sound by changing the tension of the strings, typically at the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar using a controlling lever, which is alternately referred to as a whammy bar, vibrato ...

  6. Fender Telecaster - Wikipedia

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    The Fender Telecaster', colloquially known as the tele / ˈtɛli /, [ 1 ] is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Together with its sister model the Esquire, it was the world's first mass-produced, commercially successful [ note 1 ] solid-body electric guitar. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends ...

  7. Resonator guitar - Wikipedia

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    A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often called a "dobro" [1]) is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars ...

  8. Acoustic-electric guitar - Wikipedia

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    An acoustic-electric guitar is an acoustic guitar fitted with a microphone, or a magnetic or piezoelectric pickup. They are used in a variety of music genres where the sound of an acoustic guitar is desired but more volume is required, especially during live performances. The design is distinct from a semi-acoustic guitar, which is an electric ...

  9. Acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic guitar. An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. [1]

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