Guitars

Acoustic Guitar An acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but generally strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound... Read More

Archtop Guitar An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed acoustic guitar with a distinctive "arched" belly and a sound particularly suited to blues guitar and jazz... Read More

Bass Guitar The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass or simply bass) is an electrically amplified plucked string instrument... Read More

Dobro Dobro is a trade name now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar... Read More

E-Bow The EBow or ebow (brand name or E-bow, for "Electronic bow" or Energy Bow) is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar... Read More

Effects Pedal An effects pedal, or stomp box, is an effects unit housed in a small metal chassis, used by musicians, usually guitar players, but sometimes players of other string instruments. These devices alter the sound quality or timbre of the input signal, adding effects such as distortion, fuzz, overdrive, chorus, reverb, wah-wah, flanging, or phaser... Read More

Electric Guitar 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... Read More

Fender The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, initially named the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, was started by Leo Fender in 1946, and is one of the most widely recognised manufacturers of electric guitars, electric basses and amplifiers... Read More

Fender Jaguar The Fender Jaguar guitar was introduced in 1962. The Jaguar was originally marketed and seen as a surf guitar, along with its sister guitar, the Fender Jazzmaster both of which became popular among surf rock groups in the early to mid 1960s... Read More

Fender Mustang The Fender Mustang is an electric guitar by the Fender Musical Instruments Company, introduced in 1964 as the basis of a major redesign of Fender's student models then consisting of the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic... Read More

Fender Stratocaster The Stratocaster, often called the 'Strat', is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender in the early 1950s, and manufactured continuously to the present... Read More

Fender Telecaster The Fender Telecaster is a dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender. Its simple, yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in the fields of electric guitar manufacture and popular music... Read More

Gibson Les Paul The Gibson Les Paul signature model is among the most recognized solid-body electric guitar designs... Read More

Guitar A guitar is a fretted stringed musical instrument... Read More

Guitar Pick A guitar pick is a type of plectrum designed for use on a guitar... Read More

Semi-Acoustic Guitar A semi-acoustic guitar or hollow-body electric is a type of electric guitar with both a sound box and one or more electric pickups... Read More

Steel Guitar The name steel guitar comes not from the material of which the guitar is made, but from the name of the steel, a slide held in the left hand... Read More

C. F. Martin & Company C.F. Martin & Company (Martin) is a US guitar manufacturer that was established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin... Read More

Capo A capo (short for capotasto, Italian for "head of fretboard") is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo... Read More

Classical Guitar A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the guitar family... Read More