So, my understanding is that the pickup is influenced by the string moving and tells the speaker to make a sound.
So, everything else should be no consequence, besides maybe sophistication of pickup and size of string.
So, why do other things seem to matter? I’m at a loss for a lot of specific examples, but people are always discussing various elements of their guitars and their impact on sound, but I don’t see how anything really impacts sound. Like why all the cutouts, swoops, materials, different saddles and bridges, etc. I’d understand on an acoustic, but on an electric a lot of it seems like it shouldn’t matter.
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Everything else influences exactly how the string moves, so saddle, bridges, etc. Are important. Also important are the properties of the guitar, like how much tension it is under(and necks can bend leading to badly tuned guitars), or whether pieces vibrate with either the strings or the pickup.
But beyond that, you’re right in that the shape of the body shouldn’t influence the sound. It will influence how easy it is to hold or sit with it though.
Also, things like the type of pickups and their positioning and the electronics inside of the guitar also matter.
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