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Electric guitars are more complicated than acoustics but have an incredible range of functions and sounds, you can play anything on them... and in so many different ways to! They are very versatile.
Electric Guitar
The acoustic guitar is a beautiful instrument that is played worldwide. It is the simpler of the two types of guitar. I could get into the science and fancy stuff of an acoustic but all you need to know is its a string instrument and you play it with your fingers or with a plecdrum, a small piece of plastic used to strum or pick the strums. Below I will explain the parts of the guitar, starting at the top and working down!
Acoustic Guitar
Guitar
Guitar. One of the most loved instruments around the world. A string instrument that generally has 6 strings but that can vary. Guitar is genrally played by strumming the strings or plucking them. It is a solo instrument of course. There are two types of guitars both of which I will show here, acoustic guitars and electric guitars.
Tuning head: Adjust the tension of the strings, used to tune the guitar so it sounds proper.
Nut/Zero fret: Guides the string onto the fret board, connects the fret board and the head.
Position markers/inlays: Visual elements on the exterior of the fretboard, usually dots but are often master pieces of art making a guitar unique.
Heel: Where the neck and body are attached.
Sound hole: Used to let the vibrations of the strings bounce through the body and project the sound.
Rosette: Just like the inlays this is an exterior design around the soundhole.
Pickguard: This is a large piece of plastic on the body of the guitar and it protects the body from being scratches and ruined by the plecdrum, not all guitars have these.
Bridge: Transfers the vibrations of the guitar into the body of guitar amplifying the sound.
Bridge pins: Hold the strings in place at the bottom of the guitar, also allows the strings to touch the bridge.
Right hand side
Left hand side
Head: Located at the top of the guitar, it holds the machine heads and holds them in place.
Frets: These basically are pieces of metal that seperate different noises the guitar makes, it shortens the lenght of the string therefore creating a different sound.
Neck/fretboard: A piece of wood that contains the frets and attaches the head to the body.
Body: A hollow piece of wood made to amplify the sound of the strings and make the actual sound by the air inside vibrating.
Tapboard/soundboard: This vibrates with the strings via the bridge and vibrates the air inside the body making the actual sound.
Strings: Of course the most important part of the guitar, the strings vibrate and create sound and can be shortened or lenghtened in order to create different sounds
Tuning machines/machine heads: Adjust the tension of the strings, used to tune the guitar so it sounds proper.
Fret: These basically are pieces of metal that seperate different noises the guitar makes, it shortens the lenght of the string therefore creating a different sound.
Strap button: Using for keeping a strap in place, a strap is a lenght of fabric used to suspend the guitar.
Pickups: These pick up vibrations and transfer them as elecric signals to the amp which creates the sound because there is no body to vibrate the sound around.
Volume and tune knobs: Do what they say on the tin, they adjust the volume and the tone of the guitar, not to be mixed up with the machine heads which tune the guitar.
Input Jack: Where the input wire goes into which leads to the amp to transfer the sound.
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Nut: Guides the string onto the fret board, connects the fret board and the head.
Position markers/inlays: Visual elements on the exterior of the fretboard, usually dots but are often master pieces of art making a guitar unique.
Pickguard: This is a large piece of plastic on the body of the guitar and it protects the body from being scratches and ruined by the plecdrum, not all guitars have these.
Tremolo arm/wammy bar: Changes the pitch of the strings by changing their tension when you pull or push it, making the pitch change.
Bridge: Transfers the vibrations of the guitar into the amplifier through a caple, amplifying the sound.
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