Date: 27 Feb 1997 03:19:09 GMT



I'll sit back and wait for someone to say "Your definition of the
distinction between electic and amplified-acoustic guitars won't hold
water, I'm afraid."

In article ,
Chris Oshea  wrote:
>In article , dsgood@visi.com (Dan Goodman) 
>wrote:
>
>> There are, I believe, invitational music sessions with the kind(s) of 
>> music once performed at most Mnstf meetings.  If you think these ought 
>> to be listed, give me a water-tight definition of the difference 
>> between electrical and amplified-acoustic guitars.
>
>I think they ought to be listed so...
>
>1) I can play my travel electric on a plane (finger-picking style, and 
>with headphones and a belt amp) with less annoyance to non-audience 
>passengers than I could any of my acoustics
>
>2) I can play an amplified-acoustic guitar (without an amp) to a 
>coffee-shop of people having discussions and be heard at the back, which 
>I couldn't do with an electric without an amp.
>
>3) True electric guitars are designed so that the sound is generated by 
>picking up the vibration of the strings with (usually) magnetic field 
>pickups. Any resonance added by the body has to go back through the 
>strings to be amplified. Amplified-acoustics are designed so that the 
>sound is (again usually) picked up from the resonance of the bridge/body 
>(which is why some of the pickups that fit across the hole don't give the 
>proper sound of the guitar because they are trying to turn an acoustic 
>into an electric, though some also pick up the vibration of the top/front 
>of the acoustic since they are in that top and manage to put some of the 
>good acoustic sound back in ), also you 
>can use nylon strings on an amplified acoustic (if you are not using the 
>pickups just described but a proper mike-type pickup, even if internal)
>
>Obviously there are people with electric guitars that have a "loud" body 
>resonance, and there are people with acoustic guitars that have magnetic 
>pickups, but I'd claim that these are (by accident or design) hybrid 
>designs and as such do not cause the above definition to fail. (Just 
>because you can play percussion on an acoustic does not make it *really* 
>a drum, neither does the ability to slice a hard boiled egg on an 
>electric make it a kitchen utensil!)
>
>cheers
>
>Chris "The Magician" O'Shea - www.smof.com


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