Brass Guitar

Brass & Strings VI by Karen Dupre 26.00X26.00 Framed with Black Metal Frame Brass & Strings VI, framed black metal, white matte. Beautiful Highest Quality Frame, Solid Finish, LOW SHIPPING!!! Price includes price of print Poster. Framing includes dry mounting, acrylic glazing. Comes ready to hang. and is a better quality then your local framing store Guaranteed....

Brass & Strings VI by Karen Dupre 26.00X26.00 Framed with Black Wood Frame Brass & Strings VI, framed black wood, white matte. Beautiful Highest Quality Frame, Solid Finish, LOW SHIPPING!!! Price includes price of print Poster. Framing includes dry mounting, acrylic glazing. Comes ready to hang. and is a better quality then your local framing store Guaranteed....

Brass & Strings VI by Karen Dupre. Size 24.00 X 24.00 Art Poster Print Brass & Strings VI by Karen Dupre.Total Size : 26.00 inches width by 26.00 inches height.This is the Highest Quality Art Print Reproduction of the Original Work. Fully Authorized by the Artist. OnlineWall is the worlds best quality art print, poster and framing store with over 25 years custom framing experience our quality of art prints cannot be beat ....

6pcs. 2 Jumbo Brass Grommets $12.99 This is a 6-pack of jumbo 2" (hole diameter) brass grommets. See the sizing chart photo for more details on sizing. These grommets can be used as decorative accents and hole inserts on a variety of craft projects, including cigar box guitars! These grommets do not include washers....

2pcs. 2 Jumbo Brass Grommets $5.99 This is a 2-pack of jumbo 2" (hole diameter) brass grommets. See the sizing chart photo for more details on sizing. these grommets can be used as decorative accents and hole inserts on a variety of craft projects, including cigar box guitars! These grommets do not include washers....

4pcs. Brass Trunk Corners $4.99 This is a set of 4 shiny brass trunk corners. They are sturdy corners, and are designed to actually hold the bottom of a box up off the ground about 1/4" when installed on the bottom. A great decorative accent for all sorts of trunks and boxes, and also great for cigar box guitars! You will need 2 packs if you want to put one on all 8 corners of a standard box. Please note that the cigar box show...

Herbie Mann: Jasil Brass $11.98 Jasil Brass is a filmed performance of Herbie Mann and his jazz ensemble which has never before been released on home video. Featured band members include Herbie Mann on flute, Marc Cohen on piano, Paul Sokolow on bass and Ricky Sebastian and Cyra Baptista on percussion. Program extras include a biography of Herbie Mann and solo excerpts of each performer and liner notes about the piece and the pe...

Instrumental Classmates: In Tune With Strings (Introduction to the String Family of Instruments) $35.00 (Video only, No Booklet) Instrumental Classmates is a fun, fresh entertaining new video series designed to inspire students to pick up a musical instrument and learn to play it. In Tune With Strings is your introduction to one of the most expressive groups of instruments. John PJ as he explores the string family of instruments through live performances, fun demonstrations, and fascinating historic...

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Classic Wynton $5.99 Wynton Marsalis may not have an easily recognizable or even particularly handsome tone, but this erstwhile jazz trumpeter is an amazing virtuoso with a fine sense of classical style. If you've never owned/heard any of his classical CDs, and you love (mostly baroque) trumpet music, this compilation--a sort of "greatest hits"--is for you. From such cruddy, sensationalistic works as Carnival of Veni...

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Electric Guitars

The Electric guitar hasn't been around nearly as long as the Acoustic and Classical guitars. In fact, the Electric guitar was created just 70 years ago (the 1930s) by Adolph Rickenbacker. Since that time, the Electric guitar has greatly evolved to the where it is today. In this article, we'll go over the history of the Electric guitar.

The History

Guitars, or similar instruments, have been around for thousands of years. The Electric guitar was first manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. Original Electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to produce the sound.

The very earliest Electric guitars featured smaller soundholes in the body. These guitars are known as semi-hollow body Electric guitars and still are somewhat popular today, mainly due to the fact that they are flexible guitars.

However, with the use of pickups, it was possible to create guitars without soundholes (like the Acoustic and Classical guitars have) that still had the ability to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers. These guitars are called solid body Electric guitars.

The Electric guitar's popularity began to increase during the Big Band era of the '30s and 40s. Due to the loudness of the brass sections in jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be heard above the sections. Electric guitars, with the ability to be plugged into amplifiers, filled this void.

The Electric guitar that is most prevalent today is the solid body Electric guitar. The solid body guitar was created by musician and inventor Les Paul in 1941. It is a guitar made of solid wood with no soundholes. The original solid body guitar created by Paul was very plain-it was a simple rectangular block of wood connected to a neck with six steel strings. Les Paul's original solid body guitar shape has, of course, changed from the original rectangular shape to the more rounded shape Les Paul guitars have today.

During the 1950s, Gibson introduced Les Paul's invention to the world. The Gibson Les Paul, as it was and still is called, quickly became a very popular Electric guitar. It has remained the most popular guitar for 50 years.

Around the same period of time, another inventor named Leo Fender came up with a solid body Electric guitar of his own. In the late 1940s, Fender introduced the Fender Broadcaster Electric guitar. The Broadcaster, which was renamed the Stratocaster, was officially introduced to the public in 1954. The Strat, as it is now known, was a very different guitar in comparison to the Les Paul. It had a different shape, different hardware and was significantly lighter. Fender's Stratocaster Electric guitar is the second most popular guitar in the world, second to only the Les Paul.

Over the years, other companies, such as Ibanez, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, ESP and Yamaha have all produced solid body Electric guitars of their own. However, most Electric guitars still feature the familiar shape of a Les Paul or Strat guitar.

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