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But what is an electric guitar
well, an electric guitar is a guitar with a solid body, steel strings... |
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| and pick-ups in the body, these convert the vibrations into electrical signals which are sent to the amp (come to later) |
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This Roman Cithara was fused with the Scandinavian lute.
Early guitars were made of wood with... |
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| stretched out animal intestines for strings. The early guitars in Spain had only 4 stings... |
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| and in the 16th century a 5th string was added while in the early 18th century a sixth string was added. |
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| The standard tuning for guitars is (in ascending order) E A D G B E and this tuning was first introduced in around 1810 |
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| The acoustic/classical guitar has a wide, rounded body with a hollow body for natural amplification. |
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| The development of the guitar can be compared to evolution, random things happen and the useful ones stick around. |
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