Guitar 1

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The most important piece of the body is

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the soundboard. This is the wooden piece mounted on the front of the guitar’s body, and its job is to make the guitar’s sound loud enough for us to hear.

Question 1

A guitar can be divided into three main parts:

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The hollow body
The neck, which holds the frets
The head, which contains the tuning pegs

Question 2

In the soundboard is a large hole called the

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sound hole.

Question 3

Attached to the soundboard is a piece called the

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bridge, which acts as the anchor for one end of the six strings.

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The bridge has a thin, hard piece embedded in it called the

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saddle, which is the part that the strings rest against.

Question 5

When the strings vibrate, the vibrations travel through

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the saddle to the bridge to the soundboard.

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The entire soundboard is now vibrating. The body of the guitar forms

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a hollow soundbox that amplifies the vibrations of the soundboard.

Question 7

The body of most acoustic guitars has a “waist,” or a narrowing. This narrowing happens to make it easy to rest the guitar on your knee.

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The two widenings are called bouts. The upper bout is where the neck connects, and the lower bout is where the bridge attaches.

Question 8

The size and shape of the body and the bouts has a lot to do with the

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tone that a given guitar produces. Two guitars that have different body shapes and sizes will sound a bit different.

Question 9

The two bouts also affect the sound: If you drop a pick into the body of a guitar and rattle it back and forth in the lower bout and then the upper bout, you will be able to hear a difference. The lower bout accentuates

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lower tones and the upper bout accentuates higher tones.