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A Better Sounding Guitar
A Better Sounding Guitar
A Better Sounding Guitar
Everyone would like to have a better sounding Guitar. Is there a way to turn your Guitar into the best sounding Guitar it can possibly be? Yes there is a way, read on.
The Sure Fire Way To Make Your Guitar Sound Better Play Your Guitar More And It will Get To Sound Better
All instruments builders know that an instrument must be played in before it will sound really good. The more it is played in, the better it will sound. When you play your Guitar, the sound board and the back and sides and the neck vibrate. The vibrations condition the Guitar in a way that makes it sound better.
Playing your Guitar will make you into a better Guitar Player who can get better tone and this too will make your Guitar Sound Better. In reality the great sound comes more from the player than from the Guitar. However the Guitar itself does generate a characteristic sound that improves greatly when the instrument is played more.
Picture By Robert Lee Johnson -- Author of This Web Page
Natural Pickin - by Robert Lee Johnson -- Country Music - Music Video
When you buy a new Guitar it has not been played. It takes a year or more under normal conditions where you might play the instrument a few hours each week before the Guitar begins to sound better from your having played it. If you purchased a new Guitar and played 8 hours a day, every day for a year, you would be shocked at how much the sound of the Guitar improved. I purchased a Used Nylon String Guitar that already sounded very good. I played that Guitar for 14 hours a day for three years. At the end of three years the Guitar Sounded so good that I have never played another Nylon String Guitar that sounds as good as the Guitar after I played it 14 hours a day for three years. The average person cannot play their Guitar 14 hours a day, I know that. But the more you play your Guitar, the better it will sound. One reason Vintage Guitars often sound so good is they have been played in and then some. If you could purchase the main Guitar that Eric Clapton plays the most, it would sound better than you believe a Guitar could sound for Eric Clapton plays his main Guitar a lot since he is a professional player who earns his living by playing the Guitar.
Picture By Robert Lee Johnson -- Author of This Web Page
Tuesday's Dream - Finger Style Guitar Solo by Robert Lee Johnson - Country Video
Robert Lee Johnson Productions 3 min 56 sec - Feb 26, 2006
Music Video by Author Of This Web Page Playing Finger Style Nylon String Guitar
Guitar, Mandolin, Lap Steel, Dobro
The Simple truth is the more you play your Guitar the better it will sound. The more you play your Guitar, the Better Guitar Player you will be. It takes a lot of Playing to make your Guitar Sound Good and it takes a lot of playing to turn yourself into a Good Guitar Player.
I have taken very small speakers and laid them on the bridge of my Guitar then played Guitar Music on the sound system. The Sound Board and the entire Guitar, including the neck of the Guitar, vibrates and this caused the Guitar to sound better after I had done this a couple of hours each day for about three months. The improvement in sound was quite remarkable.
Thinking about how to vibrate the Guitar by playing recorded music to it I have come up with a way that I believe is superior.
I would connect the voice coil of a super high quality speaker that is designed to handle the entire frequency spectrum and connect the Voice Coil Directly to the Bridge of the Guitar so the Vibration produced by the recorded music would do the same thing when the strings are plucked by a Guitar Player in normal play. The process would be identical. The bridge of the Guitar would be energized by the vibrations of the music that are coming through the voice coil of the speaker. This would effectively turn the soundboard into a speaker and the vibrations would be bounced off the back and sides of the Guitar as they are when the strings are plucked. There would be no difference in the process at this point in time. The entire Guitar would be vibrating in conjunction with the music vibrations that are transmitted to the voice coil, then to the Bridge of the Guitar.
Picture By Robert Lee Johnson -- Author of This Web Page
Connecting the voice coil of a speaker to the Guitar does turn the Guitar itself into a speaker. This produces sound in the house not unlike when you play your stereo to listen to music. And of course this presents problems. If the system is going to condition the Guitar to the point to where it sounds best, much time is needed with the music being played to the Guitar.
If one had a sound proof tube that the Guitar could be put in while the sound conditioning was going on the full benefit of the artificial "play in" could be realized. In order for this to be practical a sound proof tube would have to be developed that would sell for no more than $500.00. Currently there is no sound proof tube available to use this artificial "play in" method. And there are no speakers with voice coils have been modified in a way that they can be attached to the bridge of the Guitar. Only if an entrepreneur decided this system would sell and they developed a system I have described, only then could the system be used to it's full capacity.
At the present time you can set your Guitar in front of speakers and play Guitar music to the instrument. This will vibrate the Guitar and it will to some degree give it a kind of Artificial play in. Using this method takes many hours of Guitar Music being played to your Guitar and the results do not come fast by any means. But if you do this for enough hours the Guitar will get a kind of Artificial "play in" that does help in improving the sound.
Of course the best way is to play your Guitar often and long. Just get into playing your Guitar a lot and in time your Guitar will sound much better from the real "Play In." And of course if you play your Guitar a lot you will become a better Guitar Player. Both you and the Guitar will benefit greatly.
By Lee
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