| ric Guitar | | | | Guitar strings are strung parallel to the neck, whose |
| Electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses electronic | | | | surface is covered by the fingerboard. By depressing |
| pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cord | | | | a string against the fingerboard, the effective length |
| strings into electrical current. The signal may be | | | | of the string can be changed, which in turn changes |
| electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects | | | | the frequency at which the string will vibrate when |
| prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces | | | | plucked. Guitarists typically use one hand to pluck the |
| the final sound which can be either an electrical sound | | | | strings and the other to depress the strings against |
| or an acoustic sound. Distortion, equalization, or other | | | | the fretboard. Traditionally, the dominant hand is |
| pedals can change the sound that is emitted from | | | | assigned the task of plucking or strumming the |
| the amplifier. | | | | strings. |
| The electric guitar is used extensively in many | | | | In electric guitars, transducers known as pickups |
| popular styles of music, including almost all genres of | | | | convert string vibration to an electronic signal, which |
| rock and roll, country music, pop music and also in | | | | in turn is amplified and fed to speakers, which vibrate |
| some classic music. | | | | the air to produce the sound we hear. |
| Custom electric guitars | | | | Electric guitar cases |
| Onyx Forge custom electric guitars based in | | | | Case is where the guitar is kept to protect the guitar |
| California, USA is the one stop for all the custom | | | | as well to carry it from one place to another in order |
| electric guitars. Their ideal custom guitar includes 6, 7 | | | | to protect it some of the cases available for guitar |
| and 12 string standards guitars. Also specializes in | | | | can be listed as follows: |
| exotic woods and custom switching for active, | | | | • The AME-30 is designed to fit Archtop |
| passive or piezo pickups. | | | | guitars. Featuring the revolutionary Ameritage |
| Acoustic electric guitars | | | | Humidity Control System, which protects instruments |
| Some steel-string acoustic guitars are fitted with | | | | against climatic effects which cause swelling? |
| pickups purely as an alternative to using a separate | | | | • Calton Electric Guitar Cases will |
| microphone. These are called electric acoustic guitars, | | | | accommodate most electric, acoustic electric and |
| and are regarded as acoustic guitars rather than | | | | electric hollow body guitars. Due to the shaped |
| electric guitars. These should not be confused with | | | | nature of a Calton case, the instrument's horn length |
| hollo body electric guitars, which are more of electric | | | | and headstock offset are critical measurements that |
| guitars fitted with hollow sound chambers. | | | | may be requested for your case to be made. |
| History of the electric guitar | | | | Electric bass guitar |
| Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar. | | | | The electric bass guitar is an electrically-amplified |
| Electric guitars were originally designed by an | | | | fingered string instrument. The bass is similar in |
| assortment of luthias, electronics enthusiasts, and | | | | appearance to an electric guitar, but with a larger |
| instrument manufacturers, in varying combinations. In | | | | body, a longer neck and scale length, and, usually, |
| 1935, a Soviet scientist working separately from his | | | | four strings tuned an octave lower in pitch, in the |
| western colleagues was known to have produced an | | | | bass range. |
| electric Russian guitar called Kuznetsov | | | | The bass is typically used to provide the low-pitched |
| electromagnetic guitar. | | | | bassline and bass runs in popular music and jazz. The |
| The first recording of an electric guitar was by jazz | | | | electric bass is also used as a soloing instrument in |
| guitarist Beddie Durham in 1937. | | | | jazz, fusion, and latin. |
| Electric guitar strings | | | | |