CITY DAILY PHOTO AUGUST THEME DAY - WOOD

An old photo from a local flea market showing wood made for producing music--or at least it was. As a failed violinist (good ear, bad dexterity), I am certain the beat-up violin will never again make a sound other than thunk. The electric guitar looks like it has a better chance. Musical instruments must be one of the oldest uses of wood.

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String Theory

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Okay, lame title but it's what popped into my head. And anyway, the picture is in two dimensions, not eleven. So, moving right along...

Electric guitars were a radical invention. Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton undoubtedly hastened Andres Segovia's death. The basic technology is  simple but how come most of the pickups are perpendicular to the strings but some are at an angle? Why do some instruments have one or two or three pickups? Who invented the whammy bar? There were no answers at the sale table at the Gypsy Caravan where I found these instruments.