Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:17:59 GMT



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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