Electric Guitar

Electric Guitar

In the area of electric stringed instruments, different forces are at work. In any electric guitar or bass there is a device which sits on top of the body of the instrument, under the strings where your hand would strum or pluck. The device is called a pick-up, and it looks like a small bar of silver or sometimes gold. Electricity is run to the pick-up which is composed of 6 small metal poles wrapped in copper wire. [AW] {NR}