Since that time the company's main focus has been acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars.

Sambora has used Ovation acoustic-electric guitars from the early 1980s until today.

He has played Ovation Adamas series acoustic-electric guitars.

An acoustic guitar with pickups for electrical amplification is known as an acoustic-electric guitar.

Along with manufacturing acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, Alvarez also manufactures classical guitars.

Electromuse also made Spanish acoustic guitars, hollowbody acoustic-electric guitars, and other stringed instruments.

While known primarily for their acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, Takamine produced a limited run of very high quality solid body electric guitars in the early 1980's.

An acoustic-electric guitar is an acoustic guitar fitted with a magnetic pickup, a piezoelectric pickup or a microphone.

Paul was dissatisfied with acoustic-electric guitars and began experimenting at his apartment in Queens, NY with a few designs of his own.

The J-160E was Gibson's second attempt at creating an acoustic-electric guitar (the first being the small-body CF-100E).

The catalog includes acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, electric guitars, and electric basses in a vibrant selection of colors.

The Gibson J-160E is one of the first acoustic-electric guitars produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

Taylor 614-CE Grand Auditorium Cutaway Acoustic-electric guitar (Present)

Takamine Guitars manufactures a Glenn Frey signature acoustic-electric guitar, the EF360GF.

Although it sounded very much like an electric guitar, Lennon actually played it on an acoustic-electric guitar (a Gibson model J-160E), employing the guitar's onboard pickup.

Acoustic Guitar contributing editor Doug Young demonstrates the Martin OMC-LJ Pro acoustic-electric guitar.

Some Fly models have only magnetic pickups, for traditional electric guitar sounds, while some models have only piezo pickups, for use as solid-body acoustic-electric guitars.

Starting before his 2010 All's Well That Ends Well tour, Lukather began playing and endorsing Yamaha Studio Response Technology acoustic-electric guitars.

This is not the same as an acoustic-electric guitar, which is an acoustic guitar with the addition of pickups or other means of amplification, either added by the manufacturer or the player.

Usually, acoustic-electric guitars are fitted with piezoelectric pickups, and hence require a preamplifier incorporated into the guitar body to amplify the signal before it travels to the main guitar amplifier.

His music blends the legacies of his birthplace with rock, folk and new-age influences; as a soloist, he alternates between the cittern (a lutelike traditional instrument) and a custom acoustic-electric guitar.

One significant acoustic-electric guitar was the Ovation Roundback developed by Charles H. Kaman in 1966, built from fiberglass and based on his research as an aerospace engineer into the vibration of helicopter rotor blades.

On January 24, 2004, Alvarez Guitars unveiled the MMY1 Monte Montgomery Signature Guitar, a model based on Montgomery's 1987 Alvarez-Yairi DY62C Acoustic-Electric Guitar.

Detection of pressure variations in the form of sound is the most common sensor application, e.g. piezoelectric microphones (sound waves bend the piezoelectric material, creating a changing voltage) and piezoelectric pickups for acoustic-electric guitars.

Such hobbyists may also play major-thirds tuning, which also has many open chords with notes on five or six strings; chords with five-six strings have greater volume than chords with three-four strings and so are useful for acoustic guitars (for example, acoustic-electric guitars without amplification).