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Guitars and musical instruments
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Electric guitars
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Acoustic guitars
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Classical
guitars
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Guitar effects
pedals
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Effects processors
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Mixers and
amplifiers
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Speaker Cabs
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Microphones,
wireless
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Flutes
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Clarinets
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Saxophones
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Trade-ins welcome
*This website contains only a small variety of merchandise we have
for sale. Please if you can't find what you are looking for on this
website, do not hesitate to call (604)859-2518
and speak with a representative. New inventory is shelved everyday!
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$2089.95
1954 Custom Shop Fender Stratocaster 1998 model guitar w/hard case and authenication papers. |
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Sample of some of our acoustic and classical guitars |
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Sample of some of our electric guitars |
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$299.95
Cort Mirage Electic Guitar |
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$1124.95
Washburn Nuno Bettencourt Model |
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*Ask about our 30 day layaway plan
Tell us you saw it on our
website and we'll give you a deal!
Background and
Invention
The electric guitar may be the most important and popular instrument
of the last half-century in American Music. Certainly its
introduction brought a major change to American musical technology.
Since its first appearances in the 1920s, the electric guitar has
shaped the sound and direction of modern musical styles, especially
blues, rock and roll, country, and rhythm and blues. The silhouettes
of popular electric models are icons around the world. Once seen as
an unremarkable if appealing example of American manufacturing
technology, electric guitars are valued as much for the artistry of
their craftsmanship as for the sounds they make.
The story of the electric guitar reaffirms the important historical
theme. Any technology, no matter how prosaic or grand, is the result
of dynamic relationships among inventors, purveyors, and users. The
electric guitar came to prominence through the desire of musicians
and inventors for a louder, better, and different sound. It grew to
be such an important element in American music through the
interactions of listeners, players, luthiers, manufacturers,
engineers, dealers, and eventually, scholars and connoisseurs.
Because the electric guitar helped musicians to create in new ways,
they and their listeners heard new things and imagined new
possibilities about their music and, ultimately, about themselves
and the wor1d.
Invention
Since the mid-19th century, there has been continuous interaction
among guitar players and guitar makers seeking ever-greater volume
for their instrument. In the 1920s, they started to focus on the
principles of electricity as a possible aid.
One of the pioneers experimenting with electronics was engineer
Lloyd Loar, who as early as 1923 developed an electrostatic pickup
system that sensed vibrations in the soundboard of stringed
instruments.
In 1932, Adolph Rickenbacker marketed an Hawaiian or lap-steel
guitar with an electromagnetic pickup system that sensed vibrations
in the strings. Others tried to adapt this idea to Spanish
hollow-body wooden instruments, but were troubled with feedback in
the amplification of vibrations in the body of the guitar as well as
in the strings.
In the 1940s, Leo Fender, Les Paul , and Paul Bigsby began building
guitars with solid wooden bodies, which circumvented the feedback
problem. It also led to new designs and new sounds.
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