fretmusic
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:26 am Post subject: Semi Acoustic Guitars |
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Semi Acoustic Guitars
Essentially, semi acoustic guitars play like an electric guitar while also lending your playing an acoustic guitar sound. They use the thinner strings of electric models. Semi acoustic guitars have a sound box, and also come with one or more electric pickups. Because of this, semi acoustic guitars can be used for acoustic and electronic playing.
With some semi acoustic guitars, the role of pickups is largely that of alternative microphones, with a sound box meaning no further amplification is needed. But some semi acoustic guitars are meant to be used with amplifiers, and the sound box then plays amplified tones not achievable by the amplifier. Some semi acoustic guitars have hollow bodies, others solid bodies. Some semi acoustic guitars lie in between the extremes, and can be used in electronic and acoustic roles.
Semi acoustic guitars produce a fuller and richer tone than their solid-bodied electric counterparts, but are prone to feedback when played through an amplifier. Because semi acoustic guitars can be amplified, they are much louder than acoustic models.
Although semis lend themselves to a variety of musical styles, they are particular favourites of big band guitarists and jazz players, because even cheap acoustic guitars sound warm, with bluesy and jazzy tones. A variety of manufacturers now produce semi acoustic guitars, ranging from relatively cheap acoustic guitars to much pricier ones. Though there is a growing number of semi acoustic guitar manufacturing firms, perhaps the best known are Rickenbacker, Gretsch and Gibson. The Beatles made Rickenbacker semi acoustic guitars famous in the 1960s.
BB King also made the music of semi acoustic guitars famous, with his trademark model, the Epiphone Lucille.
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