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electric guitar
electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals
Details
- Instance of
- type of musical instrument
- Subclass of
- electro-acoustic chordophone, guitar
- Inception
- 1932
- Has parts
- pickup, string, neck, body, bridge, nut, potentiometer, electrical receptacle, tuning peg
- connects with
- guitar amplifier loudspeaker
- country of origin
- United States
- different from
- keytar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
- discoverer or inventor
- George Beauchamp
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 513
- topic's main category
- Category:Electric guitars
- used by
- electric guitarist
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