Electric Guitar models

Solid body

Solid Body Electric Guitars are not just empty inner cavity to absorb vibration and no sound hole is used to increase the vibration of the strings of his acoustic guitar. Solid-state devices are generally made of wood with a lacquer coating and have six steel strings. Wood is dried for 3 to 6 months in the hot water storage, before they cut. Hearing the sound of music with electric guitar pickups produced by the guitar string vibrations into electrical signals. The signal then fed to an amplifier (or amplifier) and speakers.
One of the first solid body guitar was created by Les Paul. Gibson did not present the "Les Paul" guitar prototypes from the public, not because they think it will be caught. The first series produced a solid body Fender guitar Broadcasting (later "Telecaster"), just published in 1948, made five years after the Les Paul model. Gibson Les Paul appeared briefly to compete with the transmitter.

Hollow body

Main article: Semi-acoustic guitar
This guitar has a hollow body and electronic pickups mounted on the body. He works in a similar way to solid-state electric guitar, except that, because the hollow body also vibrates, the pickups convert the combination of body and string vibrations into electrical signals. A variant form, semi-hollow body guitars, the balance between the properties of solid and hollow-body guitar. Supporting semi-hollow body guitars claim that they have more resonance and sustain a true solid body guitars, [13], and lose weight. Typically, a semi-empty body guitar has a more similar form factor with an electric guitar solid body and two sound holes, or anyone else.

Metal body

A series of metal objects have a unique acoustic guitar / support the value of the metal work. This is not hollow-body guitar, such as steel-bodied blues guitar, although most are for the weight room, on the other hand, metal-body guitar is built to play as a solid. Some metal body created in 1950 by a cello and violin maker. In the 1970s, John made polished aluminum Veleno guitar. Liquid Metal Guitars guitar metal case from a solid block and then alumimum chrome or gold plate from the unit. Many of the guitar as an instrument of solid objects that are sold as a Gibson Les Paul or PRS Singlecut, which was built with the "weight relief" holes drilled into the body, which [sound instruments affecting 14]. The Les Paul Supreme Edition is described by the manufacturer as a "stall" instrument, designed with weight reduction, a positive effect on the sound.

Acoustic-electric

Some steel-string acoustic guitar with pickups just an alternative to using a separate microphone. You may also be made with a piezoelectric element to the bridge under the bridge mounting plate is attached, or with a low mass microphone (usually a condenser microphone) into the body of the guitar, the vibrations into electronic signals in the body to convert or a combination of pickup types, integrated with the mixer / preamp / equalizer. This is called acoustic electric guitar, and regarded as acoustic guitars rather than electric guitars because the pickups do not generate vibration signals directly from the strings, but the vibration of the upper body or a guitar. This should not interfere with hollow body electric guitars that have pickups of the type which will be confused, based on the electric guitar solid objects.

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