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Guitars in General

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• Buying Guitars Online vs Buying Guitars From a Store
  by Bill McRea

Buying guitars online is a lot different than walking into a brick-and-mortar shop to pick a guitar. What are those differences and what advantages or disadvantages are inherent in buying guitars online?

First, let me start with the disadvantages...

A guitar you see online may be a lot smaller or bigger than what you think. This is particularly true if the picture does not give you anything with which to get the relative size of the guitar in question. However, this s ...

• Buying the Right Guitar
  by Michael Setz
Buying the Right Guitar
By Michael Setz
www.guitars-on-line.com

Buying the right guitar can be a lot more difficult than it seems. That's because there are a lot of them to choose from; electric, acoustic, classical, folk, hollow body, semi-hollow body, solid body, 12-string, and 7 string just to name the more common ones. Which one is right for you?
First, it will be important for you to know the type of music you are interested in playing. If you are only interested in screamin ...

• Flaming Guitars! Minarik Fuels The Excitement of a New Generation of Musicians
  by Scott G

From the Telecaster to the Flying V to the Iceman to the Warlock, some guitar designs are forever branded on our consciousness, and now there's a new one: the Minarik Inferno X-treme. The body shape erupts in furious fingers of flame. If ever there was a guitar design destined to ignite the imagination of young players, especially boys and girls who want to rawk, this is it.

Not that the Inferno X-treme lacks subtlety. With scientifically placed tone chambers, this instrument can sing s ...

If you are getting ready to take the plunge into the world of electric guitars, brace yourself. There is a lot of information out there on brands, models, and styles of this sort of guitar - not to mention the myriad of accessories you can purchase to give you a complete package. For first time buyers, you'll need to understand some absolutely basic information on electric guitars.

Basic Types

First things first - you need to know what types are available. Ther ...

As a musical genre traditional Jazz requires a fairly specific Guitar sound – generally this has involved a very clean dry tone – with little to no effects (perhaps only a hint of reverb) – usually the neck pickup is used with the resultant sound required to be clear enough to pickup the subtle nuances and articulation of the playing.

Jazz Guitarists therefore need to carefully consider thier Guitar when setting out – luckily Jazz has been around for many years and there is ...

When first learning to play guitar, one of the biggest decisions that people face is whether they want to start learning with an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Both have distinct characteristics and sounds, and favor certain styles and genres of music over the other. So how should one go about making this choice between electric and acoustic? For some it might be obvious, but for others, there are some major factors that should be considered that we will explore. Let’s st ...

Acoustic electric Guitars: this is a term used to describe acoustic guitars that have pickups installed in them so they can be plugged into amplifiers or PA systems. The majority of acoustic guitars you see on stage are acoustic electric guitars. Structurally, they are identical to traditional acoustic guitars.

Electric Guitars: these types of guitars made out of a solid piece of wood and rely exclusively on their electronic pickup systems and amplifiers for their volume. T ...

Whether it is the dull strumming of acoustics or the vibrating scream of an electric model, guitars come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and types. The next time you turn on the radio or watch MTV, you are sure to encounter the visual or audio of a guitar playing in your presence. As you explore the wide range of guitars on the market, you will find various options are utilized within rock, pop, blues and country music. While a standard guitar features six strings, there ar ...