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2. Eight-string guitar - Wikipedia

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   The standard tuning (from low to high) is F ♯, B, E, A, D, G, B, E. [7] Many prefer to tune the F ♯ to a low E (E1), the same note as the lowest string on a four-string electric bass in standard tuning, and providing the guitar with a fuller sound by having three different E strings. [8]

3. Guitar wiring - Wikipedia

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   A diagram showing the wiring of a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. Shown are the humbucker pickups with individual tone and volume controls (T and V, respectively), 3-way pickup selector switch, tone capacitors that form a passive low-pass filter, the output jack and connections between those components. The top right shows a modification that ...

4. Walking the Wire (album) - Wikipedia

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   Walking the Wire is an album released by American country ... (8) Larry Byrom – 12-string electric guitar (3), ... acoustic slide guitar (8), acoustic 8-string ...

5. Gibson Chet Atkins SST - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Pickup (music technology) - Wikipedia

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   The first electrical string instrument with pickups, the "Frying Pan" slide guitar, was created by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker around 1931. [1] Most electric guitars and electric basses use magnetic pickups. Acoustic guitars, upright basses and fiddles often use a piezo electric pickup. [citation needed]

7. Acoustic-electric guitar - Wikipedia

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   The design is distinct from a semi-acoustic guitar, which is an electric guitar with the addition of sound chambers within the guitar body. Usually, acoustic-electric guitars are fitted with piezoelectric pickups, requiring a preamplifier incorporated into the guitar body to amplify the signal before it travels to the main guitar amplifier .

8. Single coil guitar pickup - Wikipedia

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   A typical single-coil guitar pickup: copper wire wrapped around a bobbin which holds magnetic pole pieces adjacent to a magnet String effect on a single-coil (electric guitar). The coil is connected to a multimeter that indicates the voltage changes when the string moves. This signal is normally sent to an amplifier.

9. Multi-neck guitar - Wikipedia

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   Hybrids with a 6-string guitar neck and a true 8-string mandolin neck were also made (e.g., the 1971 Dawson Electric guitar/mandolin). And Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones has a triple-neck electroacoustic instrument, custom made for him by luthier Andy Manson , which features (from top to bottom) 8-string mandolin, 12-string guitar, and 6-string ...