Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

They became prized for their distinctive sound, however, and found life with several musical styles ( most notably bluegrass and also blues ) well after electric amplification solved the issue of inadequate guitar sound levels.

* detachable pickup, often straddling the soundhole and using the same magnetic principle as a traditional electric guitar ; or

The last type of guitar is commonly called an " acoustic-electric " or " electro-acoustic " guitar, as it can be played either " unplugged " as an acoustic or plugged in as an electric.

The output of the preamplifier then goes to a separate amplifier system similar to that for an electric guitar.

No instruments are used, except for maybe an electric guitar, though fans are claiming it to be her synthesized voice.

Samuel Adler classifies the harp as a plucked string instrument in the same category as the guitar ( acoustic or electric ), mandolin, banjo, or zither.

The bass guitar ( also called electric bass, or simply bass ; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.

* Stuart Murdoch: 1996 – present, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar and keyboards

* Stevie Jackson: 1996 – present, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar

* Sarah Martin: 1997 – present, violin, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitar, and vocals

It was actually just an electric guitar with a triangular shape that was based on the original instrument.

Session rosters from 1938 show both " lead guitar " and " electric guitar " in addition to guitar and steel guitar in the Texas Playboys recordings.

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged electric guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs, along with African rhythms and a signature beat ( a simple, five-accent rhythm ) that remains a cornerstone of rock and pop.

He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.

The feedback problem has led to the development of instruments like the electric upright bass, whose playing characteristics mimic that of the double bass.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

In the 21st century, European avant garde composers like Richard Barrett, Fausto Romitelli, Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang, Claude Ledoux and Karlheinz Essl have used the electric guitar ( together with extended playing techniques ) in solo pieces or ensemble works.

Dave Murray ( musician ) | Dave Murray of Iron Maiden playing a Fender electric guitar.

With these light strong instruments and modern wireless amplification these musicians can easily play standing up, move, and even incorporate dance on stage while playing their electric harps.

A young harmonicist named Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs revolutionized the instrument by playing the harmonica with a microphone ( typically a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers cupped in his hands with the harmonica, giving it a " punchy " mid-range sound that can be heard above radio static, or an electric guitar ).

Guitarist Pat Metheny mixed the sounds of blues, country, and “ world ” music, along with rock and jazz, playing both a flat-top acoustic guitar and an electric guitar with a softer, more mellow tone which was sweetened with a shimmering effect known as “ chorusing ".

Ned Sublette states: " The electric blues cats were very well aware of Latin music, and there was definitely such a thing as rhumba blues ; you can hear Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf playing it.

An ordinary guitar, either electric or acoustic, can be used for playing slide.

Timo Shanko of G. Love & Special Sauce, incorporates slide playing on electric bass.

A significant innovation of the vehicle was its use of electric lights, here playing the role of headlamps.

* EBow, a hand-held electronic device for playing the electric guitar

A drive belt connects the shafts to an electric motor ( see below ) beneath the playing surface, and rotation of the fans creates what many people call a " vibrato " effect ; however in actuality it is a tremolo, i. e. periodic modulation of amplitude, not pitch.

In 1989, Prince appeared on Madonna's studio album Like a Prayer, co-writing and singing the duet " Love Song " and playing electric guitar ( uncredited ) on the songs " Like a Prayer ", " Keep It Together ", and " Act of Contrition ".

In aerodynamics the induced air currents are forming solenoidal rings around a vortex axis that is playing the role that electric current plays in magnetism.

On the original BBC Radio series, the music was provided by Colin Sell, but when the show migrated to television, Richard Vranch ( also of The Comedy Store Players ) became the resident musician until the last series of the British show, playing electric guitar and piano and other instruments.

This is where he first met Jeffrey Lohn who was playing electric violin with the N. Dodo Band.

Recruiting David Marks, who had been playing electric guitar ( and practicing with Carl ) for years, Brian and the revamped Beach Boys cut new tracks at Western Recorders including an updated " Surfin ' Safari " and " 409 ".

It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer ; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.

During his time with The Byrds, McGuinn developed two innovative and very influential styles of electric guitar playing.

The Niger-based band Etran Finatawa combines Tuareg and Wodaabe members, playing a combination of traditional instruments and electric guitars.

Clossman then moved to Bluffton, SC and is now playing as the only electric guitarist for the praise and worship band at Crosspoint Church in Bluffton, SC whose lead pastor is Carl Francis Martin, Jr.

The group with Preston playing Fender Rhodes electric piano recorded about ten takes on 23 January.