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