Guitar bracing refers to the system of wooden struts which internally support and reinforce the soundboard and back of acoustic guitars. Soundboard or...

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...

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...

modern classical guitars usually use a different bracing (fan-bracing) from that used in earlier guitars (they had ladder-bracing); and a different voicing...

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...

traditional music). Steel-string guitars vary in construction and materials. Different woods and approach to bracing affect the instrument's timbre or...

a new style of guitar bracing (e.g. Adamas Bracing). The design strengthens the soundboard, reducing the traditional design's bracing and hence weight...

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...

a classical guitar, and has a narrower, reinforced neck and stronger structural design. The robust X-bracing typical of flat-top guitars was developed...

type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. The style, since copied by other guitar manufacturers, has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

Washburn Guitars is an American brand and importer of guitars, mandolins, and other string instruments, originally established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois...

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...

making were studying the construction of violins, his first guitars followed their bracing design. The first D’Angelicos also had no pickups. They were...

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"...

solid spruce top, scalloped top bracing, rosewood back, sides, fingerboard and bridge and carved mahogany neck. These guitars are thoroughly inspected and...

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...

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...

modifications to the top bracing. In 1970, additional structural reinforcement to the top (the (in)famous double-X bracing) was introduced which, although...

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...

2003. Garrison Guitars were crafted using innovations including the Griffiths Active Bracing System, a revolutionary method of guitar construction that...

construction. Conversely, stronger construction, such as thicker tops and heavier bracing, stifles the sound.” Michalis Hatzigiannis - Greek singer, plays a Seagull...

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...