The electric guitar ! The most popular instrument !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 intrument there is on the sceen. Because it is the most entered and requested instrument into the search engines like yahoo or Google (to mention a few). (more explaination about Keywords, please visit the part about the web site) But....the facts are speaking for themself.
What is an electric guitar?It is a type of guitar with 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 electric guitar does not rely as extensively on the acoustic proporties of its construction to amplify the sound produced by the vibrating strings; as such, the electric guitar does not need to be naturally loud, and its body can be virtualy any shape. Since the sound produced by the amplifier comes from string vibrations detected by the electric pickups, an electric guitar thatproduces minimal sound may have maximal sustain, since less of the energy from the string oscillattions is radiated as sound energy. For this reason, electric versions of almost all other similar string instruments have also been produced. This kind of guitar is used extensively in every popular styles of music. The Fender TelecasterThe fender Telecaster is a dual-pickup, solid- body electric 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 distibution 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 tracedas far back as spring of 1950, when the first single- and dual-pickup Esquire models were first sold.
From that time to the present, Telecaster has been in continuous prduction in one form or another, making it the world's senior solid-body electric guitar(Duchossoir,1991,11-15). Feel free to visite the below ads. The Fender Stratocaster!The stratocaster is a model designed by Leo Fender in the early 1950s, and manufactured continously 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' or 'Strat' 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 Statocaster is always a Fender, and the guitar's popularity shows no sign of waning. Gibson!In 1952, Gibson launched a solid-bodied guitar designed in collaboration with the popular guitarist Les Paul.The late 1950s saw a number of innovative new designs including the eccentrically-shaped Gibson Explorer and flying V and the semi-acoustic ES-335, and the introduction of the "humbucker" pickup. The Les Paul was offered in several models, includingthe custom, the standard, the Special and the Junior. In 1961, the body design of the Les Paul was shanged, due to the high cost of making the elaborate maple/mahogany body. Les Paul did not care for the new body style and let his endorsement lapse, and the new body design then became known as the Gibson SG. The Les Paul returned to the Gibson catalogue in 1968 due to the influence of players such as Eric Clapton and Peter Green. Gibson is well-known for making top quality guitars, but at a quite hefty price. Therefore, their susidiary company, Epiphone, manufactures less expensive variations of their best-selling guitars, usually made overseas in Japan, South Korea or China. Other instruments manufacturers which are owned by Gibson include Kramer and Steinberger guitars, as well as Tobias which specializes in bass guitars, Baldwin which makes piano's. Oberheim which makes effects processors and MIDI gear, and Slingerland drums. The Gibson company also makes Gibson-braded amplifiers. The Maestro brand was used in the '60s and '70s for Gibson--produced stompboxes. The most famous of which was the MaestroFuzz-tone, an early distortion pedal. Another related company is the Heritage Guitars company. An independent guitar company founded by former Gibson employees during Gibson's move to Nashville. Many of Gibson's bleugrass instruments(such as the banjo and the violin) are assembled at the "Gibson Bleugrass Showcase" at Opry Mills Mall In Nashville. The mini-factory is open to the public and also houses a store selling the full line of Gibsons products and a smal concert venue which doubles as a restaurant. I've created this web page , so you might have an idea about what an electric guitar in fact is. Thank's for dropping by, and remember, there's a lot more to discover on this web site. The webmaster.
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