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The steel-strings increased tension on the neck; for stability, Martin reinforced the neck with a steel truss rod, which became standard in later steel-string guitars. [13] Many acoustic guitars incorporate rosettes around the sound hole. An acoustic guitar can be amplified by using various types of pickups or microphones.
Steel-string acoustic guitars are commonly constructed in several body types, varying in size, depth, and proportion. In general, the guitar's soundbox can be thought of as composed of two mating chambers: the upper bouts (a bout being the rounded corner of an instrument body) on the neck end of the body, and lower bouts (on the bridge end).
A wound acoustic guitar string (phosphor bronze wound around steel) with a ball end, 0.044" gauge. Bowed instrument strings, such as for the violin or cello, are usually described by tension rather than gauge. Fretted instruments (guitar, banjo, etc.) strings are usually described by gauge—the diameter of the string. The tone of a string ...
The SST was a design that combined Gibson's steel-string acoustic and electric guitar technology. [2] The guitar had a solid spruce or cedar top and a mahogany body. Unlike most acoustic-electrics, the SST had no resonating chamber or soundhole. The acoustic sound came from a bridge mounted transducer manufactured by L.R. Baggs for Gibson with ...
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The tops of most steel string acoustic guitars are braced using the X-brace [6] system, or a variation of the X-brace system, generally attributed to Christian Frederick Martin between 1840 and 1845 for use in gut string guitars. [7] [8] The system consists of two braces forming an "X" shape across the soundboard below the top of the sound hole ...
GHS Strings is an American string manufacturer based in Battle Creek, Michigan, specializing in electric and acoustic guitar and bass guitar strings. The company was founded on August 1, 1964, [1] and in 1975 was bought by Robert McFee, who is the chairman of the board with son, Russell McFee, [1] as president. The name GHS comes from the ...
Steel-string acoustic guitar; T. Twelve-string guitar; V. Viola caiçara This page was last edited on 13 January 2020, at 18:16 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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