11 Facts About Electric guitar

The sound of an electric guitar can be modified by new playing techniques such as string bending, tapping, and hammering-on, using audio feedback, or slide guitar playing.

In pop and rock, the electric guitar is often used in two roles: as a rhythm guitar, which plays the chord sequences or progressions, and riffs, and sets the beat; and as a lead guitar, which provides instrumental melody lines, melodic instrumental fill passages, and solos.

Early electric guitar manufacturers include Rickenbacker in 1932; Dobro in 1933; National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934; Vega, Epiphone, and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

Solid-body electric guitar is made of solid wood, without functionally resonating air spaces.

The ES-150 Electric guitar featured a single-coil, hexagonally shaped "bar" pickup, which was designed by Walt Fuller.

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The first mass-produced solid-body Electric guitar was Fender Esquire and Fender Broadcaster, first made in 1948, five years after Les Paul made his prototype.

Different styles of Electric guitar have different pick-up styles, the main being 2 or 3 'single-coil' pick-ups or a double humbucker, with the Stratocaster being a triple single-coil Electric guitar.

The degree to which the choice of woods and other materials in the solid-Electric guitar body affects the sonic character of the amplified signal is disputed.

Floyd Rose introduced one of the first improvements on the vibrato system in many years when, in the late 1970s, he experimented with "locking" nuts and bridges that prevent the Electric guitar from losing tuning, even under heavy vibrato bar use.

The primary metric of Electric guitar necks is the scale length, which is the vibrating length of the strings from nut to bridge.

String gauge and design, neck construction and relief, Electric guitar setup, playing style, and other factors contribute to the subjective impression of playability or feel.