As time goes on,
people keep coming out with more and more complex machinery. There is
one device I use every day, however, that has changed very little in
the past eighty years since their invention*. This device is my
electric guitar. She is my first guitar, and over the approximate
year I have both learned to play and had her, I have gotten to be a
semi- skilled guitarist. She is a heavily modified Ibanez GiO (not
sure on specific model), featuring upgraded pickups, extra tremolo
springs, and a custom aluminum pick guard I made myself. I have other
guitars yet I still use her every day because she is my favorite, due
to the fact I love playing electric and that she is very easy and fun
to play.
I play everything
from classic rock to heavy metal on my guitar, and some of my
favorite songs to play are “Purple haze” by Jimmi Hendrix,
“Little Horn” by Marilyn Manson, and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
by Nirvana.
Electric guitars
work on basic principles of electromagnetism. As the strings are
plucked and moved, it creates a current in the pickups which goes to
the amplifier and gets reproduced as sound.** There is not a lot of
things I could do to make her better, as she already features so
much. Perhaps the best thing I could do would be to have an Edge-3
tremolo system put in, as that would seriously improve ho I use the
whammy bar. I do not use the whammy or “tremolo” bar often
however, so I am content with what I have.
I see other people
(dorm neighbors, etc.) using my guitar, which is fine. I enjoy
listening to others play, and seeing how they do it and try to learn
techniques from them.
Overall, I very
much enjoy playing her, as she is a very fine instrument. She works
well, and sounds as good as I play. I couldn’t ask much more from
my guitar
*"Electric Guitar."
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Sept.
2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar>.
**"How Electric Guitars Work."
HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Sept. 2012.
<http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/electric-guitar1.htm>.
I love Guitars as well. They are a very neat idea on how you can change the pitch of the strings and make different notes and frequencies to get a different sound. I have a Ukelele and I always laugh at myself for having it because its like a mini guitar in a way but with higher pitched strings making it a different sounding instrument. I almost feel that strings themselves are a great piece of technology because if you bow it it can be used for violins or cellos. And it you pluck it, it can be used for guitars and harps.
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