For all guitarists would have to know the names of all parts of the guitar, because if so, then you will also be easier to master and know fungsingnya. For electric guitars have different sections with an acoustic guitar, but for some there is also the same part. Even though sometimes equally electric guitar, but with a different brand there are some parts that are different from each other.
For electric guitar in general do not have a tube like on an acoustic guitar, because the source of the sound captured by a device called Pick up is made of a magnet. But even so there is also an electric guitar that has a tube so many people who knew him as an acoustic guitar electrically, so that the source of the sound captured by the tube and the pickup harga gitar akustik and the resulting character is a combination of both (nb: this guitar different from an acoustic guitar pickup is given additional ).
As a guitarist we are sure you all know all the parts in both electric and acoustic guitar. But perhaps no one yet fully knows about all of the guitar parts, therefore, in this article we will discuss about bagain bit-part electric guitar and function.
We will discuss it and start from the top
1.Headstock: as the name suggests Head if interpreted is the head, so this part is the head of the guitar and its function is as a place for Tuning implanted.
2.Tuners / tuning: is part of the guitar that serves as a guitar tuner or tuning the guitar, so that this section can be used to raise-lower the tone.
- Nut: namely a device for reliance strings or string, so that its density is maintained between the strings to one another. There are two types of Nut ie without the locking and the lock is called a string locking bridge. To which the lock has its advantages can lock the string so that tuning is not easily changed, or the pitch will be constant
- Fret: a metal made of steel, which serves to divide the fingerboard into multiple columns that can produce different tones.
- Fingerboard: if interpreted as the origin of the word is the finger board, so of course its function is to put a finger in order to produce the desired tone.
- Neck: neck itself if the mean is the neck, so this is the guitar neck that consists of several parts: Fingerboard, Fret, Nut, tuners.
- Strings: are the strings of a guitar which is the main source of the sound of the guitar
- Body: the body of the guitar, which generally tebuat of wood, which also affects the quality and character of the guitar sound
- Amp connector cable: serves to connect between the guitar and the amp and effect
- Volume and Tone control: regulating the size of the volume and tone on the guitar
- Pickup selector switch: the switch to activate the pickup regulator which one to use, if you want to know more about these things we have discussed in previous articles in advance and please click on this link.
- Pickups: a device that has a function of capturing guitar string vibrations and convert it into electrical signals, so that then can remove noise on voice amplifier device.
- Whammy bar: an electric guitar accessories in the form of a lever and serves as a regulator of the string vibration modulation, so that it can raise and lower the tone in the temporal and also to vibration engineering.
14 Bridge: a place to hold the strings of the guitar body, and also as a place to put the whammy bar. Bridge like this in its development, there are several types of fixed bridge, up down tremolo bridge, down tremolo bridge which has the advantages of each, and will be discussed in the next article.