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The Electric Guitar

Acoustic guitars and their various musicalarm appeared, allowing notes to be bent down
relatives can be traced back thousands ofor up (before, they could only be bent
years, but the idea of a guitar usingupwards by pulling the string away from its
electric currents to amplify its sound had tonatural line, thus tightening it). The
wait until the 1930s to start to take root.tremolo arm was part of the early sound of
Necessity was, perhaps, the mother ofrock 'n' roll, and could make a vibrato sound
invention here, as the volume of the guitar,or create the long, sustained, wailing sounds
used previously in blues and jazz, could notassociated with Jimi Hendrix. Other sound
compete with the new sounds of the big bandeffects, such as chorus, overdrive, vibrate,
and the shriek of brass instruments. Earlywah-wah, reverb and delay (echo) could also
experiments with simply adding microphones tobe controlled via foot pedals by the player,
guitars had only limited success, partly duefurther adding to the variety of sounds
to the quality of the tone and partly becauseavailable. The pickup was also applied to
of the feedback that could occur as soon as abass guitars, and is now seen on violins,
reasonable volume was reached. Themandolins, cellos and many other types of
breakthrough came when Les Paul, a jazzstring  instrument.
guitarist, successfully experimented with a
magnetic pickup system that could convert theMusical  styles  using  electric  guitars
vibrations of the strings to an electrical
signal to be amplified and sent to a speaker.The genres of music that use electric guitars
Soon, guitarists started adding pickups toare too numerous for this article, but their
their hollow-bodied guitars, but in factorigins can be traced back to the jazz and
there was no need for an electric guitar tobig band sound that became popular between
have a hollow body, as the pickups couldthe wars. Blues guitarists pioneered the
detect very subtle vibrations and amplify"dirty" sound that would later morph into
them anyway. Before long, Fender,heavy metal, and no rock and roll group would
Rickenbacker and, of course, Gibson werebe complete without at least one electric
producing  solid-bodied  electric  guitars.guitar. Bob Dylan was once called "Judas" by
a heckler when he swapped his acoustic for an
Innovations  unique  to  the  electric guitarelectric on stage, a significant moment in
electric folk. The sixties saw mainstream pop
Electric guitars allowed many innovationsand psychedelic bands putting the instrument
that would go on to define their sound. Mostto good use, and disco, punk, ska and reggae
noticeably was the fact that volume and tonemusic of the seventies used the instrument's
controls could be added to the electronicsinherent rhythm; a lively and thriving
between the pickup and the cable, which meantAfrican sound is once of the guitar's most
that the accomplished guitarist could adjustinnovative current streams. Whenever a new
the tone and loudness whilst on stage. Secondtechnology has come along, especially the
and third pickups were added at variouselectronic revolution of the late 1970s and
points along the body to take advantage of1980s, people have written off the electric
the difference in tone at various pointsguitar, but it shows no sign of losing
along the strings, and these could be blendedpopularity.
together with multiple controls. The tremolo



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