Hollow Body Electric Guitars

There are several different types of guitars available for purchase. The most well-known types among novices are electric guitars and acoustic guitars. However, there is another option: hollow body electric guitars. These guitar models allow for a different sound than those achieved by simply an electric or acoustic guitar; they lend themselves quite well to many different genres of music. Read on to learn more about hollow body electric guitars.

Hollow body electric guitars are best known as semi-acoustic guitars. They are also known as acoustic electric guitars. They are a six-string instrument and are more shallow than an acoustic guitar. Compared to acoustic and electric guitars, these models combine the best of both worlds: they have a hollowed out body, as is necessary for acoustic playing, but like an electric guitar, they also have the ability to be plugged into an amplifier. These capability makes it best for playing at live venues. These guitars are excellent at producing a fuller, more rounded tone than the solid bodied electric guitar. When plugged into an amplifier, these guitars will produce a more acoustic sound and will not be identical to that of an electric guitar.

It's important to keep in mind that one major setback of these sort of guitars is that they can produce a lot of unwanted feedback when connected to an amplifier, due to its extra sound chambers.

Because these guitars have a hollow body, they are naturally more light-weight and easier to carry than electric guitars. They also have an interesting, unique design, with a wide body like that of an acoustic guitar, but often modeled to look similar in appearance to the solid-bodied electric guitar. Some semi-acoustic guitars, however, are designed to look identical to a regular acoustic.

Popular manufacturers for hollow body electric guitars are Rickenbacker, Epiphone, Ibanez and Gibson. While some semi-acoustic guitars can run over a thousand dollars USD, there are others that you can get at a rather reasonable price of approximately four hundred to five hundred dollars USD, new. There are even some models which can cost up to or over two-thousand dollars USD. While there are cheapter hollow body electric guitars, they will not live up to the same quality as more expensive models. Therefore, it's important to shop around before making a final decision as to which guitar brand is best to purchase. Naturally, it's also possible to make your own hollow body electric guitar.