Innovations+of+the+Guitar

= The innovations of the electric guitar =

There are many different kinds of guitars, they have started from thousands of years ago.Some guitars from the early age are moorish guitars, latin guitars, vihuela, the voboam guitar and many more. [|Antonio Torres]made the more modern guitar, with a larger deeper body, and a new pleasing body. A guitar that really changed music is the electric guitar. The electric guitar gave music a new sound.

The electric guitar was made for musicians to get a sound that was more louder and that made their music more unique. There are various inventors of the electric guitar such as Les Paul, and Adolf Rickenbacker. When Adolf, started to make the guitar, he worked with engineers. He was working with electrical currents. He "produced an electromagnetic pickup in which a current passed through a coil of wire wrapped around a magnet, creating a field which amplified the strings' vibrations." (Invention) This electromagnetic pickup is what made the guitar more amplified and made the sound more powerful. "Christian Friedrich Martin, who founded the company in 1833, was not only a sublime craftsman and canny entrepreneur, but also a design and technology innovator of the first order, responsible for many features accepted today as standard on stringed instruments" (Rohter). Although the electric guitar isn't using electricity alone, with the amplifier, makes the noise. but alone the guitar sound reallt flat and dull. When plugged into the amplifier, it changes the whole complete sound of the electric guitar. If we didn't have the electric guitar, the music today would not be the same. The electric guitar changed music because i gave the music field a different form of sound. The music wouldn't have much sound in them, it would just be acoustic guitars.

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