How does electric guitar’s body shape affect its sound?

Question

So electric guitars use pickups to “pickup” vibration of strings to determine the sound. How does the body of the guitar play a role there? Moreover, how does the type of material the body is made of play a role?

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Answer 1

When you play a string on a guitar, the string vibrates and shares that vibration to the rest of the guitar. The build of the guitar affects how it carries that vibration.