Welcome to "the electric guitar" page! The ultimate instrument used by musicians and songwriters. This guitar is one of the more popular or even the most popular instrument there is on the scene.
This type of guitar has a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electronic "pickups" to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical voltage. The voltage signal may be electrically filtered to achieve various tonal effects to prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the final sound.
In contrast to the acoustic guitar and most other acoustic string instruments, the solid-body guitar does not rely as extensively on the acoustic proportions of its construction to amplify the sound produced by the vibrating strings. This guitar does not need to be naturally loud, and its body can be virtually have any shape.
Since the sound produced by the amplifier comes from string vibrations detected by the electric pickups, a minimal sound may have maximal sustain, since less of the energy from the string oscillations is radiated as sound energy.
This kind of guitar is used extensively in every popular styles of music.
The best known and very popular among musicians are: The Fender stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, and the Gibson, Les Paul
The fender Telecaster is a dual-pickup, solid- body guitar made by Fender. It's simple, yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in the fields of electric guitar manufacture and popular music.
Introduced for national distribution as the Broadcaster in the fall of 1950, it was the first guitar of it's kind to be produced on a substantial scale. Its commercial production can be traced as far back as spring of 1950, when the first single- and dual pick up Esquire models were first sold.
From that time to the present, Telecaster has been in continuous production in one form or another, making it the world's senior solid-body guitar..
The stratocaster is a model designed by Leo Fender in the early 1950s, and manufactured continuously to the present.
It has been used by many leading guitarists and many historic recordings: Along with the Gibson Les Paul and the Strat's older cousin, the Fender Telecaster, it is one of the most enduring and common models of electric guitar in the world.
The Stratocaster has been widely copied, such that 'Stratocaster' can denote a type of guitar, by various manufacturers, showing the same general features as the original (see strat copy). But properly, and to all legal intent, a Stratocaster is always a Fender, and the guitar's popularity shows no sign of warning.
The famous 'Gibson' guitar history is starting also early the fifties.
Gibson launched a solid-bodied guitar designed in collaboration with the popular guitarist Les Paul, who was a guitarist and a guitar designer and developer..
The late 1950's saw a number of innovative new designs including the eccentrically-shaped Gibson Explorer and flying V and the semi-acoustic ES-335. Also the introduction of the "humbucker" pickup.
The Les Paul was offered in several models, including the custom, the standard, the Special and the Junior.
Their subsidiary company is Epiphone. It's manufactures are less expensive variations of their best-selling guitars,and are usually made overseas in Japan, South Korea, and China.
Don't forget! When your
instrument for songwriting is the electric guitar, then don't forget that you need to calculate the cost of an amplifier too. Or, you can use a active speaker with build-in amp. Choose for quality and spend your money wisely..Let's Rock and Roll guy's....
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