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History Of The Acoustic Guitar
By Samantha Clark
Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitar usually involve the following musical instruments:
Nylon and gut stringed guitars:
Renaissance guitar
Romantic guitar
Classical guitar
Steel stringed guitars:
Twelve string guitar
Steel-string acoustic guitar
Archtop guitar
Battente guitar
Acoustic bass guitar
Russian guitar
Other instruments:
Harp guitar
Banjo guitar
Guitar lute
Guitar can be divided into two categories, acoustic and electric
An acoustic guitar is not dependant on any external device for amplification. The shape and resonance itself has the ability to create acoustic amplification. Today there are many acoustic guitars available with built-in electronics and power to enable amplification.
Acoustic electric guitars
Some steel-string acoustic guitars are fitted with pickups as an alternative to using a different microphone. These are called electric acoustic Guitars and are regarded as acoustic guitar rather then electric guitars. It should not be confused with hollow body electric guitars, which are more of electric guitars fitted with hollow sound chambers.
Free acoustic guitar lessons
There several free acoustic guitar lessons available online for beginners. The free guitar lessons are designed for guitarists of all playing abilities.
Acoustic guitar magazine
The acoustic guitar magazine is for acoustic guitar players, from beginners to performing as a professional. The magazine usually contains free acoustic and electric guitar lessons, tutorials and videos for both beginner and professional. Some of the great magazine includes Flatpicking guitar magazine and Acoustic guitar.
Vintage acoustic guitars
Veteran musicians know firsthand that vintage acoustic guitars simply sound and feel better than their contemporary counterparts.
Vintage acoustic guitar body shape:
Steel-stringed vintage acoustic guitars come in two general body shapes.
Flattop vintage acoustic guitars - As the name suggests, flattop vintage acoustic guitars feature a flattop body. If you play blues, folk, bluegrass, or rock, flattops, which were pioneered by Martin, will suit you best.
Archtop vintage acoustic guitars - In contrast, archtop vintage acoustic guitars have a curved top and a hollow body. If youre a jazz or country player, then look for archtops, which were invented by Gibson. (The most sought-after Gibson archtops are the larger models dating from the early 1930s to 1959.)
Acoustic guitar notes
A musical note is a tone. However, a musical-note tone comes from a small
collection
of tones that are pleasing to the human brain when used together. For
example, you might pick a set of tones at the following frequencies:
264
Hz
297 Hz
330 Hz
352 Hz
Acoustic guitar reviews
Yamaha
LLX-500C Acoustic/Electric Guitar
Price ranges from $2,399 or
higher.
The Yamaha LLX-500C is hand built in Yamahas Japan
factory. Features include a solid spruce top, mahogany neck, and solid
rosewood back and sides. The headstock and neck of the guitar are attractive
trim in ivoroid binding, and the Yamaha name on the headstock just
look great. Unlike many acoustic electric, the Yamaha LLX-500C sides
are solid instead of laminated.
Guild F50R Jumbo Acoustic Guitar
Price
ranges from $2,499 or higher.
The F50R is based on the original
F50 specification from 1960s to 1980s. The Guild F50R features an ebony
fretboard and a rosewood bridge. Neck dimensions include a 25.6-inch
scale and a slightly narrower-than-normal width of 1.69 inches. The
F50R does not lack for fine details - the fret board has eye-catching
abalone and mother-of-pearl inlays and two racing stripes that run
from nut to sound-hole.
Acoustic Guitar Tabs
Tablature
is a form of musical notation, which tells players where to place their
fingers on a particular instrument rather than which pitches to play.
Tablature is mostly seen for fretted stringed instruments, in which
context it is usually called tab for short. It is frequently used for
the guitar, bass and lute. But in principle it can be used for any
fretted instrument includes banjo and viola da gamba.
Acoustic
Guitar Strings
Guitar strings are strung parallel to the neck,
whose surface is covered by the fingerboard. By depressing a string
against the fingerboard, the effective length of the string can be
changed, which in turn changes the frequency at which the string will
vibrate when plucked. Guitarists typically use one hand to pluck the
strings and the other to depress the strings against the fretboard.
The
strings may be plucked using either fingers or a plectrum. The sound
of guitar is either mechanically or electronically, forming two category
of guitar: acoustic or electric.
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