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2. Stoptail bridge - Wikipedia

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   This is an important adjustment especially when changing the gauge of the string set on the guitar. There are practical limits to this technique: too high and it could bend the posts and the strings will not seat properly into the bridge saddles; too low and the string break will rest on the rear of the bridge, killing sustain and tone.

3. Guitar tech - Wikipedia

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   The guitar tech also might perform any of a variety of maintenance tasks, such as checking that the string height of the guitars is set properly, modifying ("dressing") the height and arc of the frets, adjusting the intonation of the instruments, checking that tubes (valves) on tube amplifiers are working properly, and that cables are in good condition and free from crackles and hum caused by ...

4. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music .

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6. String (music) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Guitar bracing - Wikipedia

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   Smallman combines this with heavier, laminated back and sides with a frame. Smallman's guitars are used by John Williams. Smallman's design was inspired by research by Torres who made a guitar with a papier mâché back and sides to show that the soundboard was the most important factor in guitar sound projection. Smallman also uses two 45 ...

8. Twelve-string guitar - Wikipedia

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   An acoustic 12-string guitar hand-crafted in 1977. 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. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned ...

9. Steel-string acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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   The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, [1] but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical guitar, it is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar , or sometimes as a folk guitar .