• Guitar bracing refers to the system of wooden struts which internally support and reinforce the soundboard and back of acoustic guitars. Soundboard or...
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    Tilton) used X-bracing instead. While some consider the sound of X-bracing less delicate sounding in guitars strung with gut strings, this bracing method helped...
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    A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but with lower action, thinner tops and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings...
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    The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch...
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    traditional music). Steel-string guitars vary in construction and materials. Different woods and approach to bracing affect the instrument's timbre or...
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    modern classical guitars usually use a different bracing (fan-bracing) from that used in earlier guitars (they had ladder-bracing); and a different voicing...
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  • Brace (redirect from Bracing)
    Look up Brace, brace, braces, or bracing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brace(s) or bracing may refer to: Orthopaedic brace, a device used to restrict...
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  • a new style of guitar bracing (e.g. Adamas Bracing). The design strengthens the soundboard, reducing the traditional design's bracing and hence weight...
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    a classical guitar, and has a narrower, reinforced neck and stronger structural design. The robust X-bracing typical of flat-top guitars was developed...
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    type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. The style, since copied by other guitar manufacturers, has...
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    with heavier build and bracing. The most common tuning, considered standard today, is a variation on the standard six-string guitar tuning: E3•E2 A3•A2 D4•D3...
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  • and made use of fan bracing, which first appeared in guitars made by Francisco Sanguino in the late 18th century. The bracing pattern, which refers...
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  • 2011), "Delaware music stores bracing for national giant's arrival", The News Journal, retrieved May 15, 2011, Guitar Center, which focuses on the rock-band...
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    Hole". These later guitars also have revised internal bracing and a longer scale length of 670 mm (26.38 in). The vast bulk of guitars produced after the...
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    Luthier (redirect from Guitar maker)
    apprenticed to Johann Georg Stauffer, a guitar maker in Vienna, Austria and Martin & Co. was born, with the X bracing being developed in the 1850s. Martin...
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  • the guitar is sacrificed as little as possible. They applied the full extent of this philosophy to the Wing Series guitars, which used A-frame bracing instead...
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    L-00 style guitars built as other brands the Marshall Special has an X-braced top. The bracing is the lightest of any Gibson flat-top guitar ever made...
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    (3-17) (1859) guitars by C. F. Martin Very first Size No.1 guitar with earliest X-Bracing (1842) by Martin & Schatz c.f. Size No.0 (0-45) guitar played by...
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    to develop the bracing of the soundboard, but most still use some version of the fan-bracing that Torres's pioneered. Torres's guitars were strung with...
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  • Washburn Guitars is an American brand and importer of guitars, mandolins, and other string instruments, originally established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois...
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    making were studying the construction of violins, his first guitars followed their bracing design. The first D’Angelicos also had no pickups. They were...
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  • wood-selection, shaping the bracing; to design; etc. The goal aim is a sound quality that helps the musician create music. Guitars by different builders often...
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    solid spruce top, scalloped top bracing, rosewood back, sides, fingerboard and bridge and carved mahogany neck. These guitars are thoroughly inspected and...
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    sides; strings. Woods used and internal bracing layouts are also similar. There are two basic types of Russian guitar: the "classical" model and the "gypsy"...
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  • introduced scalloped bracing on acoustics, and began using a higher quality brand of tuning machines. Hondo was one of the first overseas guitar builders to feature...
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  • construction. Conversely, stronger construction, such as thicker tops and heavier bracing, stifles the sound.” Michalis Hatzigiannis - Greek singer, plays a Seagull...
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    with the original design of the "A frame" guitar bracing, and is an advocate of the zero fret principle on guitar fingerboards. All of his instruments have...
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    Martin D-28 (category Acoustic guitars)
    Starting with the 2017 D-28's Martin has switched to forward shifted X-bracing, a revised neck pattern termed High Performance Taper with Modified Low...
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  • The Guild Guitar Company is a United States-based guitar manufacturer founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge, a guitarist and music-store owner, and George Mann...
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    internal bracing. The neck, however, is much narrower, and supports the mandolin string layout, rather than the traditional 6 strings of the guitar. As with...
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