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Welcome to American Guitars
American guitars have changed the world. Generations have grown up to the special sounds of Fender Stratocasters, Gibson Les Pauls and a host of others, each with their own distinctive sound and style.
They have provided the accompaniment for countless musical talents, and the background for generations of young love, going through an amazing variety of music styles and influences, all produced by the same basic design of a solid wooden body, with magnetic pickups, producing a weak electrical current, which has been amplified, distorted, played, recorded and archived all round the world.
On our americanguitars.co.uk website we have some basic information for beginners, some interesting bits of information on the background and history of American guitars and how they came to change our lives as they did.
Please feel free to browse through our site, you are at home here whether you want to buy anything or not. If you like American guitars, you are one of us, welcome.
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17 January 2007 14:13:44
The Highlands They Are A-Changin'
There will be a few more American Guitars in the Highlands of Scotland soon, when Bob Dylan moves into his new Highland retreat at Nethybridge near Aviemore.
He is reported to have paid £2.2 million for his mansion, Aultmore, which lies in twenty-five acres of secluded wooded grounds in the shadow of the Cairngorm mountains. He bought it wi . . .
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15 January 2007 18:30:59
PAF Humbuckers - ever wondered?
Since 1955 or so, Gibson have been fitting humbucker pick-ups to their guitars.
The reason they were invented was that the hum caused by feedback from other electrical sources, usually the amplifier, near the guitar, was picked up by the magnetic coils of the pick-up, causing a hum to be heard through the amplifier.
What the Gibson en . . .
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15 January 2007 18:15:50
Pots - ever wondered?
Why do we call the volume and tone controls on an electric guitar pots?
They are round and sort of cylindrical in shape, a bit like a pot, but that is not the reason.
The working part of a pot consists of a fixed resistive track and a moveable contact. When the knob of the volume or tone control is turned, the contact moves round th . . .
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15 January 2007 18:04:31
Gibson SG Guitars - ever wondered?
Ever wondered why Gibson SG guitars are called SG? Does SG have some deep and important meaning?
Well, it has a meaning, how deep it is we leave you to judge.
In the early 1960s sales of the Gibson Les Paul models were drifting towards the lower end of the graph and management thought they had better do something to make the guitars . . .
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