semi-acoustic

Half-hollow guitar type

Semi-acoustic describes a guitar that combines features of solid-body electric and fully hollow acoustic guitars.

A semi-acoustic has a partially hollow body with a solid center block, reducing feedback while retaining some of the warm resonance of an acoustic instrument: The semi-acoustic gives you that jazz tone without the squealing at high volumes.

Also called semi-hollow.

instrument

archtop

Guitar with curved soundboard

laminate · spruce · maple · resonant · warm · woody · unplugged · plugged-in · versatile · dual-mode

genre

jazz

Improvisational American music genre

swing · country · indie · folk-rock · R&B · soul · fingerstyle · mellow · expressive · versatile

tone

warmth

Heat you feel

clarity · attack · body · depth · richness · overtones · harmonics · woody · airy · natural

amplification

pickup

Small open-bed truck

  • piezoStress-induced electrical effect
  • humbuckerDual-coil noise-reducing pickup
  • preampInitial signal booster

transducer · onboard · blended · signal · output · jack · DI · EQ · active · passive

Opposites
guitar body construction

semi-acousticsolid-body

Without internal cavities

archtop

amplification dependence

semi-acousticclassical guitar

Acoustic with nylon strings

electric · electrified · acoustic

Family

semi, acoustic, acoustics, acoustical, acoustically, semicircle, semifinal, semiconductor, semiautomatic

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