Guitar, electric

This entry catalogues an electric guitar in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, recorded under the descriptive heading of an electric guitar rather than by maker or model. The electric guitar is normally a solid-bodied instrument with six strings, magnetic pickups and controls for volume and tone, whose sound is produced entirely through amplification rather than by the resonance of its body. The museum holds instruments of this kind as documentation of the development of the instrument and of the music played on it. The record identifies the type and the collection it belongs to, and no maker or date is claimed here.

Guitar, electric

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