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