| Some guitars have pickups to convert the | | | | In any music that features electric guitar |
| vibration of the steel chord strings into | | | | the audible sound is produced by pick-ups |
| electrical current and these types of guitars | | | | that convert the vibrations into an |
| are called as electric guitars. In many | | | | electrical signal. |
| popular styles of music like jazz, blues, | | | | |
| rock and roll, country music electric guitars | | | | This electrical signal is passed on to an |
| are used. It is even used in contemporary | | | | amplifier and then to a speaker. Electric |
| classical music. Many famous musicians enjoy | | | | guitars have necks that vary according to the |
| playing on the electric guitars. | | | | composition as well as its shape. There are |
| | | | different neck shapes as C necks and v-necks. |
| In the year 1932, the guitarist Kansas of | | | | The cut of the neck can help to define the |
| Wichita performed with the electric guitar | | | | particular sound that the electric guitar |
| for the first time. The first solid body | | | | makes. |
| electric guitars was invented by Lespaul in | | | | |
| the year 1942. In the year 1950, Leo fender | | | | There are many strings and each musician play |
| designed the first commercially successful | | | | on different strings. Tiny Grimes is a noted |
| solid body electric guitar with a single | | | | four-string player. |
| magnetic pick up. It was named as the | | | | |
| Esquire. | | | | Another type of electric guitar is the hollow |
| | | | body electric guitar. These have pick ups |
| The movements of the strings in the electric | | | | mounted on its body. The hollow body electric |
| guitar induce a very small electrical current | | | | guitar works in a same way as the old body |
| in the magnetic pick-ups and make very clear | | | | electric guitar. The only difference is that |
| sound. All the magnetic pick-ups usually pick | | | | when the hollow bodies vibrate the pick-ups |
| up the unwanted electromagnetic noises. In an | | | | and convert the body vibration in to an |
| electric guitar, the unwanted noises are | | | | electric signal. |
| eliminated. Induced currents and circuits are | | | | |
| the main working principles of electric | | | | Electric guitars can be played either solo or |
| guitars. In an electric guitar, the coils are | | | | with any other instruments. It is popularly |
| wrapped with very fine wire and are under the | | | | used in pop music and even classical music. A |
| ferromagnetic string. | | | | student of academy of science completed the |
| | | | largest electric guitar and technology in the |
| Unlike acoustic guitars, the bodies of the | | | | year 2000.This electric guitar measures 13 |
| electric guitars are very solid and do not | | | | metres long, and weighs 1018 kilograms. |
| have any holes to accommodate vibration. | | | | |
| Electric guitars are made of hard wood with a | | | | Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and |
| lacquer coating and have six steel strings. | | | | Reporting on Guitar for Years. |