An electric guitar is a musical instrument. It works on the principle of converting the vibration of steel cored strings into an electrical current and the vibration is made louder by using a speaker and an instrument amplifier. The signal produced from the guitar is electronically altered sometimes with guitar effects like reverb or distortion.
Types of Electric Guitars
- Generally, most of the electric guitars have six strings, apart from this seven-string electric guitars are used by some metal and jazz guitarists and 12 string guitars are used in genres like jungle pop and rock.
History - The jazz guitarists used the electric guitars for the first time when they used amplified instruments to get a louder sound. The first electric guitar was actually a hollow bodied acoustic electric guitar. This electric guitar was made by the Rickenbacker Company in the year of 1931. The world’s first solid-body guitar was the ‘Fender Esquire’. It was the first commercially successful electric guitar released in 1950 made by Leo Fender. Later he also made the first electric bass guitar in 1951 and he named it the ‘Fender Precision Bass’.
It has been so many years since the electric guitar was introduced to the world and today it is used by most of the musicians and in genres like Pop, Rock etc.
Now not only musicians but normal people also use guitar as their hobby. As prices are high in the electronic music market, so people who cannot afford it, buy cheap electric guitars.
Cheap Guitars
- If you want to buy a cheap electric guitar, then you have a lot of choice out there. The main downside of a cheap electric guitars is its durability that is affected due to the low quality material. You can consider yourself lucky if you will be playing it for more than one year without any problems. The quality of these guitars are obviously cannot be matched with those which are upscale, but yet they are fine for practicing at home.
Price Range – The range of electric guitars start from as low as $100 up to $400 and there are few brands out there that make low priced guitars.But you will find electric guitars in much les price.
It is recommended that you do not buy a cheap electric guitar for below $250 as the guitars under this price are built with cheap materials to cut down the production costs and thus the guitar’s sound is compromised due to the lower quality material and also the finishing looks a bit rough.
Top Brands - Below are the brands that offer cheap guitars under the above range –
1. Aria Electric Guitars – Aria was formed in Japan in 1953. This company made some replicas of famous guitars like the Fender ‘Stratocaster’ and the Gibson ‘Les Paul’, but it also invented some own great styles on its own. Popular musicians like Herb Ellis, Cliff Burton, Neal Schon, Yngwie Malmsteen and John Taylor endorsed this brand.
2. Ashton Electric Guitars – The Ashton guitars are excellent for all gig loving people. These guitars are designed to deliver a bottom heavy sound leaving the players shaking even after the music stops.
3. Crescent Electric Guitars – Crescent Electric Guitars is also one of the top brands of electric Guitars.
4. Encore Electric Guitars - Encore Electric Guitars is also one of the top brands of electric Guitars.
5. Dean Electric Guitars – Dean Electric Guitars are great musical instruments. The Dean guitars are used by some of the hardest rocking heavy metal music bands as they produce that dynamic sound.
6. Epiphone Electric Guitars – The Epiphone Guitar Company was founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos. In 1957, this company was bought by Chicago Music Company. Epiphone was the main rival of Gibson in the archtop market. Today, it manufactures a vast range of electric guitars.
7. Esp Electric Guitars – This Company was established in Tokyo by Hisatake Shibuya in 1975, the ‘Electric Sound Products’. Initially, it sold replacement parts for guitars and it gained a reputation for high-quality replacement parts. Later, it began manufacturing guitars under the ESP and Navigator brands.
8. Fender Electric Guitars – In 1940, a California based musical inventor called ‘Leo Fender’ began making custom guitars and amplifiers. Later his small shop turned in to a big company. Today, Fender manufactures great electric guitars that come on the top in the list.
From the above list, Vintage, Epiphone and Yamaha offer the best electric guitar.
And, when I say best electric guitar, it is a matter of personal choice as some people like the ‘rock’ using Fender, Gibson and other top rock style whereas people with a more mellow kind of music like country might choose a different version of Gretch or Fender. So, there are many styles to choose from, however in America, the Fender Strat is considered as the best electric guitar.
Whatever your genre and style is, it is better to look at the signature series of any musical instrument company.
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