Yamaha CPX900 Acoustic-Electric Guitar Ultra Marine
Top: Solid Spruce. Back & Sides: Flamed Maple. Body Depth: 3.74″ - 4.53″. Neck: Nato. Fretboard: Ebony. Bridge: Ebony. Nut Width: 1.69″. 14th Fret Width: 2.165″. Scale Length: 25.59″. Electronics: System57 (A.R.T.). 3-Way Pickup System with on board tuner, 3-band EQ and gold colored control panel. Hardware: Gold.
An electric guitar is played when you pluck a string which vibrates over the pickups. The pickups collect the sound and sends it through the cable to the amplifier. An electric guitar with light metal strings is another alternative.
An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses electronic pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cord strings into electrical current. The signal may be electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the final sound which can be either an electrical sound or an acoustic sound.
An electric guitar is accompanied with its amplifier and cable, without which it is pretty useless. Thus starting with an electric might turn out to be more expensive than an acoustic, and people generally don’t want to pay a bomb for their first guitar. An electric guitar usually does not have a hollow body so it makes very little sound when you pluck the strings without being plugged into an amplifier. This is quite different from an acoustic guitar which is typically made with a hollow body.
Acoustic-electric guitars use either nylon strings or steel strings. Nylon strings, used on classical guitars, produce a mellow tone perfect for classical, flamenco, and some folk music. Acoustic guitars use no external amplification as their primary means of creating a tone, while electric guitars use an amplifier as their primary means of creating tones.
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