It is still a guitar in the sense that it has a body, strings, and pickups to sense the strings vibrations and pass them to an amplifier. The left hand, which traditionally would shorten the ...
Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...
“What he showed me was, you might not be a guitar god, but you could make a living.” The irony is that Billy Strings — in terms of the reverence he’s earned from a large and growing audien ...
Using 3D animation, Greg explains how the sound a string makes is amplified by an instrument like the violin. Fran shows us how it is easy to make a guitar out of an old cardboard box and some ...
While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But […] ...