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There’s not a lot of music out there that I listen to that doesn’t have some sort of electric or acoustic guitar in the mix. Either as the main instrument or as small as a fill in for a certain sound. As broad as their sounds are there are several very distinct similarities between electric and acoustic guitars. For instance, both utilize the use of a body for the neck to attach to and a neck with frets for finger placement. The strings attach to the lower end of the body and go all the way to the head, or the top of the neck.
They both use strings that vary in gauge, or size, which are vital to produce sound when they are picked, hammered on, or strummed as a group. Similarly each is tuned in the same manner to produce the proper tone desired. An acoustic guitar needs no amplifier to make its sound loud enough to be heard, which makes it very portable and capable of being played virtually anywhere.
Unlike an electric guitar, an acoustic uses the body of the guitar as its amplifier, because the body is very thick and hollow it is able to project its own natural sound loudly. An electric guitar requires the use of an amplifier to transport the sound through pickups that are secured in the thin body. Then transferred through a cable connected to the guitar into the amplifier which produces the sounds out of the speakers. Without an amplifier the electric guitar is very hard to hear.
Volume and tone knobs on the electric guitar can make it louder or change the sound of the strings being played. Additionally foot pedals can be added to produce even more different sounds so that the sounds that the electric guitar is capable of are almost limitless.
Reference :
Johnson, J. (2005). english120. Paragraph by Contrast and Comparison. Retrieved from english120 website :
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