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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The shape of the guitar does affect its sound, however it doesn’t have as great an effect on an electric vs acoustic. In both cases the quality of the wood, amount of cavities, neck shape, etc will all change the resonance of the guitar. However an acoustic relies on these things to produce a good sound. Whereas on an electric the quality of the components will have the greater effect. You can see this when people make plastic guitars or even ones made of cardboard exist. These still sound pretty good for what they are. Of course you will notice a top of the line Gibson next to one of these, but the components will also be better.
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