It is still a guitar in the sense that it has a body, strings, and pickups to sense the strings vibrations and pass them to an amplifier. The left hand, which traditionally would shorten the ...

Fitting fresh bass strings can be a real treat: you realize what your bass guitar was missing out on and the top-end frequencies return, meaning your tone control once again has a purpose!

You can see here the hammer is hitting really thick strings. So that is a pianoand you play a piano with keys. But what about otherstring instruments? A guitar works by either pluckingthe strings ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

The LiberLive app is available for Android and iOS and provides almost 100 strumming patterns for rhythm guitar. You can also pluck individual simulated strings with your fingers. The tempo can ...

Karplus, K. and Strong, A., 1983. Digital synthesis of plucked-string and drum timbres. Computer Music Journal, 7(2), pp.43-55. Jaffe, D.A. and Smith, J.O., 1983 ...

You can’t rush a painstaking artist like Iowa City's Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand. Known for years in prominent nationwide orchestral circles for his exquisitely crafted string basses selling for $ ...