Acoustic Guitars

The raw acoustics of the electric guitar aren't quite as interesting as the acoustic guitars. The body is essentially a good-looking hunk of wood to counterbalance the weight of the neck and to keep the strings vibrating a longer time. Acoustic guitars produce sound due to a rather complicated interaction (or "coupling") between the various components of the instrument. Nylon guitars usually have rather rounded bodies and the neck joins the body at half the effective string length (12th fret). The finger board is relatively wide (about 60mm at the body) and the top three strings (highest pitch) are made of nylon and the lower three are generally composite (silver-plated copper wire wrapped around a silk fibre core). The steel-string guitar family tends to have a little more geometric variation than the nylon guitars. Most models have the neck join the body at the 14th fret, to increase the fingerboard's effective length. The strings are usually either steel alloy or bronze.

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