WEEK5 KINDS

This week, I write about kinds of the guitar. There are various kinds of the guitar.

 Guitar is roughly classified into two types. It is whether the guitar is electric guitar or acoustic guitar. Let us know various guitars.

ACCOUSTIC GUITAR

・Classical guitar

The classical guitar varies from the "Spanish Guitar" with its construction, size, weight, wood and the sound it sound. The common factor is that classical guitars have six nylon strings against metal strings used in other acoustic and electric guitars. The name “classical guitar” means two concepts. First, the instrumental finger technique of other guitars is common to classical guitar. Second, the instrument's historic back ground. Classical guitar is used in many musical genres. Classical guitar is played in classical music, tango, jazz, country music, ENKA, and so on.

・Flamenco guitar

 A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but flamenco guitar has thinner tops and less internal bracing. Flamenco guitar is used in toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of flamenco.

・Folk guitar (Steel-string acoustic guitar)

The folk guitar is a modern form of guitar that comes down from the classical guitar, but the folk guitar is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. It is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, but the nylon-strung classical guitar is also sometimes called an acoustic guitar. The most common type is often called a flat-top guitar to distinguish the folk guitar from the more specialized archtop guitar and other kinds.

・Acoustic-electric guitar

 An Acoustic-electric guitar is an acoustic guitar fixed with pickups. In acoustic-electric guitars, the transducers and microphones are always used because traditional pickups are not capable of picking up vibrations of non-magnetic materials. The design is different from a semi-acoustic guitar, which is an electric guitar but with the addition of sound rooms within the guitar body.

ELECTRIC GUITAR

 An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to change the vibration of its strings into electrical signal.

・Solid body type

Solid body electric guitars have no vibrating soundboard to extend string vibration as is the case with acoustic guitars. Solid body electric guitar depends on electric pickups and an amplifier and speaker. The solid body ensures that the amplified sound will reproduce the string vibration alone, thus avoiding the wolf tones and not wanted feedback associated with amplified acoustic guitars of the period.

・Semi-acoustic type

 Semi-acoustic guitars have a hollow body and electronic pickups mounted on the body. They work in a similar way to solid body electric guitars except that, because the hollow body also vibrates, the pickups change a combination of string and body vibration into an electrical signal. On the other hand, chambered guitars are made, like solid-body guitars, from a one block of wood, semi-acoustic and full-hollowbody guitars bodies are made from thin sheets of wood. They do not provide enough acoustic volume to performance for live, but can be used "unplugged" for quiet practice.

This week’s topic was kinds of the guitar. Next week I write about production.

Thanks for reading!!