Guitars: The quest for volume
Across
- 2. They run down the neck to the middle of the body to a piece of wood called the bridge
- 5. Is achieved by placing pickups inside the guitar body
- 7. An object that attracts other objects toward it, either naturally or because of an electric charge
- 9. opened the door for musicians to experiment with sound in other ways
- 10. It anchors the strings to the guitar top and contains the saddle
Down
- 1. This shape best amplifies and smoothes the sound of all the tones that a guitar makes
- 3. It operates on the principle that a tightly stretched string, when plucked, will vibrate rapidly and agitate the air enough to make a musical tone
- 4. It is transmitted as a weak electrical current through wires and cables to an electrical device that amplifies the signal through a speaker
- 6. Thin piece of hard material that lifts the strings slightly above the neck and top
- 8. To play the strings of a guitar by pulling with the fingers or with a pick