PARTS OF ACOUSTICS AND ELECTRIC GUITAR

Before you learn to playing a guitar and the chords, it's so much better for you to know the parts of guitar to make it easier in learning activity from my articles.
If you want to play electric or acoustics guitar, you should know the guitar itself and all of the parts would be explained in this article.
Look at the picture carefully!

The picture above is about the parts of electric guitar.

NOTE
• Tuning Machines: this has the function as a tool to tune up the strings on guitar so it can create the appropriate tones as we want, to tone up it can be helped by the tool or by your instinct (this method can be learnt, learnt, and learnt).
• Headstock: this also can be called as the head of the guitar, is the part whose the function is to hold back the strings and tuning machines, on the tip of the electric guitar's neck.
• Nut: the function is to manage the placing of strings to keep them at their place, on the electric guitar there is a nut which is able to lock the strings for going no where ( called as locking nut).
• Neck: has the function to lie the fretboard, tuners (tuning machines) and headstock.
• Fingerboard (Fingerboard): a wood with metal fret to divide the place of tones.
• Fret: the metal on the Fingerboard to divide the place of tones.
• Strap pin: to hold back the strap of guitar.
• Body: it's the body of the guitar.
• Pickups: the detector of the string's trill and change it fron mechanics energy to the electric energy which has been converted by amplifier become the tones.
• Bridge: it's binding agent of the strings to the body of guitar.
• End pin: to hold in the strap of the guitar.
• Bar/vibrato/tremolo/whammy bar: to adjust the modulation of the string's trill.
There are two kinds, they are: a.bent down tremolo: tremolo which only can descend the tone, and b. updown tremolo (there is no picture yet): tremolo which can ascend or descend the tone.
• Pickup selector switch: switch is a manager of pickups to choose which pickup would be activated to create the variation of sounds that we want.
• Volume control: the button to manage the volume
• Tone control: the manager of the bass strength and treble of guitar's sound.
• Output jack: it's the connector of the guitar to the amplifier or another electronics devices, it's commonly be pluged in with the jack of guitar's cable.
• Strings(senar): strings are made from nylon, steel, nickel to create the tones.

And here is the parts of acoustics guitar!

For acoustics guitar, what you need to know are:
1. tuner dan tuner post
2. nut
3. headstock
4. neck
5. body
6. fingerboard atau fretboard
7. fret
8. string
9. sound hole
10. bridge

The functions of them are same as explained in the note of electric guitar before. However, there are the parts which can't be found in the acoustic guitar, as pick up, whammy bar, volume control dan amply cable connector but there is also the acoustics guitar which has the manager of volume and amply cable connector.

That is the parts of guitar, I hope it can be useful in learning to play the guitar itself.
Last but not the least, please leave me your comments!
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agiel