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212 relations: AC/DC, Acoustic guitar, Acoustic-electric guitar, Adolph Rickenbacker, Agathis, Alder, Alembic Inc, Alternating current, Aluminium, Amplifier, Amplitude, Angus Young, Archtop guitar, Audio feedback, B.C. Rich, Bahian guitar, Bakelite, Balanced audio, BandLab Technologies, Banjo, Bass guitar, Beat (music), Big band, Blues, Bolt-on neck, Bridge (instrument), Carbon microphone, Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer, Cardboard, Charlie Christian, Chord (music), Chord progression, Chuck Berry, Classical guitar, Country music, Course (music), Distortion (music), Dobro, Doc Kauffman, Ebonol (material), Ebony, Eddie Durham, Effects unit, Eight-string guitar, Electric blues, Electrical impedance, Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts, Electro-Spanish Model B, Electromagnetic induction, Electromagnetic interference, ... Expand index (162 more) »
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- Blues instruments
- Jazz instruments
- Rhythm section
- Rock music instruments
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. Electric guitar and acoustic guitar are rhythm section.
See Electric guitar and Acoustic guitar
Acoustic-electric guitar
An acoustic-electric guitar is an acoustic guitar fitted with a microphone, or a magnetic or piezoelectric pickup. Electric guitar and acoustic-electric guitar are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Acoustic-electric guitar
Adolph Rickenbacker
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 1, 1887 – March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American production engineer and machinist who, together with George Beauchamp, created the first electric string instrument, and co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company, also with Beauchamp.
See Electric guitar and Adolph Rickenbacker
Agathis
Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees, native to Australasia and Southeast Asia.
See Electric guitar and Agathis
Alder
Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.
Alembic Inc
Alembic is an American manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps.
See Electric guitar and Alembic Inc
Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
See Electric guitar and Alternating current
Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
See Electric guitar and Aluminium
Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
See Electric guitar and Amplifier
Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period).
See Electric guitar and Amplitude
Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC.
See Electric guitar and Angus Young
Archtop guitar
An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players. Electric guitar and archtop guitar are blues instruments.
See Electric guitar and Archtop guitar
Audio feedback
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker) and its audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup).
See Electric guitar and Audio feedback
B.C. Rich
B.C. Rich is an American brand of acoustic and electric guitars and bass guitars founded by Bernardo Chavez Rico in 1969.
See Electric guitar and B.C. Rich
Bahian guitar
The Bahian guitar in guitarra baiana, pau elétrico (meaning electric pole or electric log (electric stick).) is a Brazilian solid-body electric mandolin with either 4 or 5 strings, normally tuned GDAE and CGDAE, respectively, and has the scale of a cavaco, 6 String versions (adding on a Low F) also exist. Electric guitar and Bahian guitar are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Bahian guitar
Bakelite
Bakelite, formally, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde.
See Electric guitar and Bakelite
Balanced audio
Balanced audio is a method of interconnecting audio equipment using balanced interfaces.
See Electric guitar and Balanced audio
BandLab Technologies
BandLab Technologies is a Singaporean company founded in 2015 that operates a social music platform, called BandLab, and also owns a variety of music-related brands, including Harmony and Heritage Guitars; Guitar.com, NME, Uncut and MusicTech.com media platforms; and Swee Lee musical instrument retailer and distributor.
See Electric guitar and BandLab Technologies
Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. Electric guitar and banjo are american musical instruments.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. Electric guitar and bass guitar are american inventions, american musical instruments, blues instruments, jazz instruments, rhythm section and rock music instruments.
See Electric guitar and Bass guitar
Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
See Electric guitar and Beat (music)
Big band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
See Electric guitar and Big band
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Bolt-on neck
Bolt-on neck is a method of guitar (or similar stringed instrument) construction that involves joining a guitar neck and body using screws or bolts, as opposed to glue and joinery as with set-in neck joints.
See Electric guitar and Bolt-on neck
Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.
See Electric guitar and Bridge (instrument)
Carbon microphone
The carbon microphone, also known as carbon button microphone, button microphone, or carbon transmitter, is a type of microphone, a transducer that converts sound to an electrical audio signal.
See Electric guitar and Carbon microphone
Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.
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Cardboard
Cardboard is a generic term for heavy paper-based products.
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Charlie Christian
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
See Electric guitar and Charlie Christian
Chord (music)
In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.
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Chord progression
In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.
See Electric guitar and Chord progression
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.
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Classical guitar
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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Course (music)
A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string.
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Distortion (music)
Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone. Electric guitar and Distortion (music) are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Distortion (music)
Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone.
Doc Kauffman
Doc Kauffman (born Clayton Orr Kauffman May 4, 1901, died June 26, 1990) was a lap steel guitar, electric guitar engineer, inventor and pioneer of the world's first patented guitar vibrato system.
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Ebonol (material)
Ebonol is a synthetic material whose name derives from its similarity in appearance, hardness, and stability to ebony wood.
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Ebony
Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.
Eddie Durham
Edward Durham (August 19, 1906 – March 6, 1987) was an American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer, and arranger.
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Effects unit
An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing. Electric guitar and effects unit are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Effects unit
Eight-string guitar
An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven. Electric guitar and eight-string guitar are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Eight-string guitar
Electric blues
Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.
See Electric guitar and Electric blues
Electrical impedance
In electrical engineering, impedance is the opposition to alternating current presented by the combined effect of resistance and reactance in a circuit.
See Electric guitar and Electrical impedance
Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts
Manufactured by Ro-Pat-In Corporation, Rickenbacker, the Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts is considered the pioneering "grandfather" to the modern electric guitar as it was the first commercially produced, full-scale (twenty-five inch) electric guitar ever produced. Electric guitar and electro-Spanish Ken Roberts are electric guitars.
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Electro-Spanish Model B
The Electro-Spanish Model B was the world's first production, solid body (Bakelite) electrified guitar, officially released in 1935 by Rickenbacker, and based on the 1931 "Model B Hawaiian" Lap Steels. Electric guitar and electro-Spanish Model B are electric guitars.
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Electromagnetic induction
Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) across an electrical conductor in a changing magnetic field.
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Electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI), also called radio-frequency interference (RFI) when in the radio frequency spectrum, is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction.
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Electronic tuner
In music, an electronic tuner is a device that detects and displays the pitch of musical notes played on a musical instrument.
See Electric guitar and Electronic tuner
Envelope (music)
In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.
See Electric guitar and Envelope (music)
Epiphone
Epiphone is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908.
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Extended technique
In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
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Fender (company)
The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers.
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Fender Esquire
The Fender Esquire was a solid-body electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation of Los Angeles.
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Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
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Fender Telecaster
The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele, is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Electric guitar and Fender Telecaster are american inventions.
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Fender Telecaster Deluxe
The Fender Telecaster Deluxe is a solid-body electric guitar originally produced from 1972 to 1981, and re-issued by Fender multiple times starting in 2004.
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Fender Telecaster Thinline
The Fender Telecaster Thinline is a semi-hollow guitar made by the Fender company.
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Ferrule
A ferrule (a corruption of Latin viriola "small bracelet", under the influence of ferrum "iron") is any of a number of types of objects, generally used for fastening, joining, sealing, or reinforcement.
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Fill (music)
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Fingerboard
The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.
See Electric guitar and Fingerboard
Floyd Rose
The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Frankenstrat
The Frankenstrat, also known as "Frankie", is a guitar created by Eddie Van Halen.
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Fraxinus
Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.
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Fret
A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.
Fretless guitar
A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made.
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Frying Pan (guitar)
The Rickenbacker Electro A-22, nicknamed the "Frying Pan" is the first electric lap steel guitar, also widely considered to be the first commercially successful electric guitar. Electric guitar and Frying Pan (guitar) are electric guitars.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Gage Brewer
Gage Kelso Brewer (1904 in Gage, Oklahoma – 1985 in Wichita, Kansas) was an American musician, guitarist and bandleader.
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George Barnes (musician)
George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921Ross, Sam Jazz Music Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 July 2022.– September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist.
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George Beauchamp
George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments.
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Gibson Brands
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Gibson ES-150
The Gibson ES-150 is a pioneering semi-acoustic electric guitar produced by Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.
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Gibson Les Paul Custom
The Gibson Les Paul Custom is a higher-end variation of the Gibson Les Paul guitar.
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Gibson SG
The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar model introduced by Gibson in 1961, following on from the 1952 Gibson Les Paul.
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Gittler guitar
A Gittler Guitar is an experimental designed guitar created by Allan Gittler (1928–2002).
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Gretsch
Gretsch is an American company that manufactures and markets musical instruments.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. Electric guitar and guitar are blues instruments and rhythm section.
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Guitar amplifier
A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet. Electric guitar and guitar amplifier are blues instruments, electric guitars, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.
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Guitar solo
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar.
See Electric guitar and Guitar solo
Guitar synthesizer
A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities. Electric guitar and guitar synthesizer are electric guitars.
See Electric guitar and Guitar synthesizer
Guitar World
Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.
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Hammer-on
A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on to the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.
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Headstock
A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instruments such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Hideki Ishima
is a Japanese musician, known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin' Band and for creating the sitarla instrument.
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High impedance
In electronics, high impedance means that a point in a circuit (a node) allows a relatively small amount of current through, per unit of applied voltage at that point.
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Humbucker
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups.
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Humming
A hum is a sound made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.
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Ibanez JEM
The Ibanez JEM is an electric guitar manufactured by Ibanez and first produced in 1987.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.
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Inductance
Inductance is the tendency of an electrical conductor to oppose a change in the electric current flowing through it.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz guitar
Jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or a guitar playing style in jazz, using electric amplification to increase the volume of acoustic guitars. Electric guitar and jazz guitar are jazz instruments.
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Keytar
Keytar (a portmanteau of keyboard and guitar) is a keyboard instrument similar to a synthesizer or MIDI controller that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is held.
See Electric guitar and Keytar
Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Electric guitar and lap steel guitar are american inventions.
See Electric guitar and Lap steel guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure.
See Electric guitar and Lead guitar
Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
See Electric guitar and Les Paul
List of electric guitar brands
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about brand names under which electric guitars have been sold. Electric guitar and list of electric guitar brands are electric guitars.
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List of guitarists
This list of guitarists includes notable musicians, known principally for their guitar playing, for whom there is an article in Wikipedia.
See Electric guitar and List of guitarists
List of guitars
This list of guitars details individual guitars which have become famous because of their use by famous musicians; their seminal status; their high value; and the like.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.322
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.322 under that system.
See Electric guitar and List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.322
Lonnie Johnson (musician)
Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound. Electric guitar and loudspeaker are american inventions.
See Electric guitar and Loudspeaker
Luthier
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
See Electric guitar and Luthier
Machine head
A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension.
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Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.
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Mahogany
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
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Mains hum
Mains hum, electric hum, cycle hum, or power line hum is a sound associated with alternating current which is twice the frequency of the mains electricity.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. Electric guitar and mandolin are american musical instruments and blues instruments.
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Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States.
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Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Electric guitar and microphone are american inventions.
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Microtone (music)
Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".
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MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
Modulus Guitars
Modulus Graphite (formerly, Modulus Guitars) is an American manufacturer of musical instruments best known for building bass guitars with carbon fiber necks.
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Monaural sound
Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.
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Museum of Making Music
The Museum of Making Music, is a division of the National Association of Music Merchants' NAMM Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Carlsbad, California.
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Music Man (company)
Music Man is an American guitar and bass guitar manufacturer.
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Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)
The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
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National Association of Music Merchants
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is a not-for-profit global trade association dedicated to the music products industry.
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National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history.
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National String Instrument Corporation
The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars.
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Neck (music)
The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches.
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Neck-through-body construction
Neck-through-body (commonly neck-thru or neck-through) is a method of electric guitar construction that combines the instrument's neck and core of its body into a single unit.
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Nut (string instrument)
A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll.
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Paul Bigsby
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar.
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Paul Tutmarc
Paul Tutmarc (May 29, 1896 – September 25, 1972) was an American musician and musical instrument inventor.
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Phone connector (audio)
A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.
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Pickguard
A pickguard (also known as a scratchplate) is a piece of plastic or other (often laminated) material that is placed on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.
Pipa
The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pizzicato
Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.
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Plectrum
A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.
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Plywood
Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.
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Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Portamento
In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another.
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Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
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Power trio
A power trio is a rock and roll band format having a lineup of electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit, leaving out a dedicated vocalist or an additional rhythm guitar or keyboard instrument that are often used in other rock music bands that are quartets and quintets.
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Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.
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PRS Guitars
Paul Reed Smith Guitars, also known as PRS Guitars or simply PRS, is an American guitar and amplifier manufacturer located in Stevensville, Maryland.
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Reverberation
Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.
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Rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.
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Rhythm section
A rhythm section is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band that provides the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band. Electric guitar and rhythm section are jazz instruments.
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Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.
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Riff
A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition.
Ro-Pat-In Corporation
Ro-Pat-In Corporation (ElectRo-Patent-Instruments) was founded by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in 1931 to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Roger C. Field
Roger C. Field (born 31 July 1945) is an English designer and the inventor of the Foldaxe folding electric guitar, which won the Designers' Choice Award for the United States in 1980.
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Rosewood
Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours.
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Schecter Guitar Research
Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known simply as Schecter, is an American manufacturing company founded in 1976 by David Schecter, which originally produced only replacement parts for existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson.
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Semi-acoustic guitar
A semi-acoustic guitar, also known as a hollow-body electric guitar, is a type of electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body and at least one electromagnetic pickup.
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Set-in neck
A set-in neck (often shortened to set neck) is the traditional form of joining the neck of a stringed instrument with its body.
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Seven-string guitar
The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also to extend the treble range. Electric guitar and seven-string guitar are electric guitars.
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Single coil guitar pickup
A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born Rosetta Nubin, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Slide guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music.
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Slingerland Drum Company
Slingerland is a United States manufacturer of drums.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Solid body
Sound sample of solid-body electric guitar. A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly detect the vibrations of the strings; these instruments are usually plugged into an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard.
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Sound hole
A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.
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Stars and Their Guitars: A History of the Electric Guitar
Stars and Their Guitars: A History of the Electric Guitar is a documentary film by filmmaker Kent Hagen.
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Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Electric guitar and steel-string acoustic guitar are american musical instruments and rhythm section.
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Steinberger
Steinberger is a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger. Electric guitar and Steinberger are electric guitars.
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Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.
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Stoptail bridge
A stoptail bridge (sometimes also called a stopbar bridge) used on a solid body electric guitar or archtop guitar is a specialized kind of fixed hard-tail bridge.
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String bending
String bending is a guitar technique where fretted strings are displaced by application of a force by the fretting fingers in a direction perpendicular to their vibrating length.
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String harmonic
Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Electric guitar and string instrument are rhythm section.
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Strum
In music, strumming is a way of playing a stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin.
Swamp ash
Swamp ash is a common name for several North American trees in the genus Fraxinus which may grow in swamps and other wetlands.
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T-Bone Walker
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds.
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Tailpiece
A tailpiece is a component on many stringed musical instruments that anchors one end of the strings, usually opposite the end with the tuning mechanism (the scroll, headstock, peghead, etc.).
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Tapping
Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar.
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Ted McCarty
Theodore McCarty (October 10, 1909 – April 1, 2001) was an American businessman who worked with the Wurlitzer Company and the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Tilia americana
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Tonewood
Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments.
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Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.
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Travis Bean
Clifford Travis Bean (21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011, aged 63) was an American luthier and machinist from California.
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Truss rod
The truss rod is a component of a guitar or other stringed instrument that stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature (also called relief) of the neck.
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Twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Electric guitar and twelve-string guitar are electric guitars.
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Utility frequency
The utility frequency, (power) line frequency (American English) or mains frequency (British English) is the nominal frequency of the oscillations of alternating current (AC) in a wide area synchronous grid transmitted from a power station to the end-user.
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Vega Company
The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881.
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Veleno (guitar)
The Veleno guitar is a highly regarded series of aluminium guitars built by metal craftsman John Veleno.
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
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Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
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Vigier Guitars
Vigier Guitars is a French musical instruments company based in Grigny, Essonne and founded by Patrice Vigier in 1980.
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Vintage guitar
A vintage guitar is an older guitar usually sought after and maintained by avid collectors or musicians.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
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Vivi-Tone
Vivi-Tone was a musical instrument company formed in partnership by former instrument designer for Gibson Guitar Corporation, Lloyd Loar, Lewis A. Williams, and Walter Moon.
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Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).
Voltage
Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County.
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Wolf tone
A wolf tone, or simply a "wolf", is an undesirable phenomenon that occurs in some bowed-string instruments, most famously in the cello.
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Worm drive
A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm wheel (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear).
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XLR connector
The XLR connector is a type of electrical connector primarily used in professional audio, video, and stage lighting equipment. Electric guitar and XLR connector are american inventions.
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6061 aluminium alloy
6061 aluminium alloy (Unified Numbering System (UNS) designation A96061) is a precipitation-hardened aluminium alloy, containing magnesium and silicon as its major alloying elements.
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See also
1931 musical instruments
- Electric guitar
American musical instruments
- Abel Axe
- Anarchestra
- Appalachian dulcimer
- Autoharp
- Banjo
- Bass guitar
- Bladder fiddle
- Bones (instrument)
- Calliope (music)
- Cornstalk fiddle
- Diddley bow
- Dulcitar
- Electric guitar
- Fiddle
- Flapamba
- Foot drum
- Glass harmonica
- Hammered dulcimer
- Instrument 1
- Jug (instrument)
- Kazoo
- Lowebow
- Lujon (musical instrument)
- Mandolin
- Mandolins in North America
- Puerto Rican cuatro
- Song bells
- Sousaphone
- Steel guitar
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- Theatre organ
- Ukulele
- Vest frottoir
- Vibraphone
- Vibraslap
- Washboard (musical instrument)
Blues instruments
- Archtop guitar
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Harmonica
- Instrument amplifier
- Mandolin
Jazz instruments
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Clarinet
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Flute
- French horn
- French horn in jazz
- Gibson ES-350T
- Goema
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Jazz bass
- Jazz drumming
- Jazz flute
- Jazz guitar
- Jazz piano
- Jazz trombone
- Jazz violin
- Rhythm section
- Saxophone
- Sitar in jazz
- Trombone
- Trombones
- Trumpet
- Trumpets
- Valide trombone
- Valve trombone
- Vibraphone
Rhythm section
- Accompaniment
- Acoustic guitar
- Alternate bass
- Backline (stage)
- Bass guitar
- Bassline
- Bateria
- Comping (jazz)
- Contrabass guitar
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Electric sitar
- Electronic drum
- Guitar
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Jazz bass
- Jazz chord
- Nashville Number System
- Offstage musicians and singers in popular music
- Oom-pah
- Open chord
- Piano
- Rhythm section
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- String instrument
- Synthesizer
- Tambourine
Rock music instruments
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Gibson ES-350T
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Instrument amplifier
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