The History of Amplifiers
Tips on Guitar Pre-Amps
How a Guitar Bridge Works
How Electric Guitars Work
How Classical Guitars Work
How Natural Amplifiers Work
How Flat Top Guitars Work
How Acoustic Bass Guitars Work
How a PA Amplifier System Works
How Guitar Amplifiers Work
How to Use a PA Amplifier System
What is Reverb & How it Works: Acoustic Amplifiers
What is Tone Control & How it Works: Acoustic Amplifiers
How Microphones Work
How to Set Up a Microphone
How to Use Special Effects in Audio
How Strings Work on Musical Instruments
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"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jim Dufresne. I'm here to tell you about acoustic guitar amplification. Okay, now here's one of the old jazz guitars that we like a whole bunch. You can tell right away that it looks like a violin, it's closely related to a violin. It has "F" holes, it's top or soundboard is arched and therefore it gets its' name "arch top". The back is arched also, see when you look at it like this, you can see the bulges out both sides. The top bulges up and the back bulges backwards. Arched top, arched back, and when Orville Gibson started making guitars, he used violin technology to make the first arch tops back in the 1890's. Arch tops and a really nice arch top, are very expensive guitars because they are all handmade, hand carved, the good ones are, and the real expensive arch tops like the Super 400's Gibson's Super 400's and the L5's and the Stromberg's and the Tangellico's and the Tanquisto's were made to be quite loud on their own. In the 30's and 40's the un-amplified guitars replaced the banjos in the orchestras and they were able to project very powerfully on their own naturally and compete quite well with the pianos and basses and trombones. And that's generally how they were played."
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