Types of guitars Jazz guitar

a hollow-bodied epiphone guitar violin-style f holes.

while jazz can played on type of guitar, acoustic instrument solid-bodied electric guitar such fender stratocaster, full-depth archtop guitar has become known prototypical jazz guitar. archtop guitars steel-string acoustic guitars big soundbox, arched top, violin-style f-holes, floating bridge , magnetic or piezoelectric pickups. makers of jazz guitars included gibson, epiphone, d angelico , stromberg. electric guitar plugged guitar amplifier make sound loud enough performance. guitar amplifiers have equalizer controls allow guitarist change tone of instrument, emphasizing or de-emphasizing frequency bands. use of reverb effects, included in guitar amplifiers, has long been part of jazz guitar sound. particularly since 1970s jazz fusion era, jazz guitarists have used effects pedals such overdrive pedals, chorus pedals , wah pedals.

the earliest guitars used in jazz acoustic, later superseded typical electric configuration of 2 humbucking pickups. in 1990s, there resurgence of interest among jazz guitarists in acoustic archtop guitars floating pickups.

the original acoustic archtop guitars designed enhance volume: reason constructed use relatively heavy guitar strings. after electrification became norm, jazz guitarists continued fit strings of 0.012 gauge or heavier reasons of tone, , prefer flatwound strings.

the characteristic arched top can made of solid piece of wood carved arched shape, or piece of laminated wood (essentially type of plywood) pressed shape. spruce used tops, , maple backs.

archtop guitars can mass-produced, such ibanez artcore series, or handmade luthiers such robert benedetto.

other guitars

the selmer-maccaferri guitar associated django reinhardt , gypsy swing.
the resonator guitar used (but not exclusively) oscar aleman.
nylon string guitars associated latin jazz, instance in work of charlie byrd , laurindo almeida.
flat-top steel-string guitars (particularly ovation guitars) have been used in acoustic shredding of john mclaughlin, larry coryell , al di meola.
solid-body electric guitars have been used in jazz-rock, instance bill frisell , stanley jordan. telecaster in particular has jazz following, e.g.ed bickert , ted greene.
synthesizer guitars in jazz-rock , avant-garde jazz, e.g. allan holdsworth , pat metheny.
seven string guitars george van eps, lenny breau, bucky pizzarelli , howard alden.
eight-string guitars ralph patt.




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