eli5 What give electric guitar their variety?

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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 matters in making sound

1:1 identical guitars except one is brass and one is wood will have different sounds

Some parts of guitars are purely ornamental or just for show….but some design choices are strictly for modifying the sound

*also many times the sounds are very similar to untrained ears; many people can’t tell the difference between a $200 guitar and a 1000 guitar……but the difference between a $200 guitar and a 3000+ is pretty significant

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