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Need To Know About 7 Most Essential Guitar Bridge Types

  Did you know there are  7  main guitar bridge types? This is very important if you want to sound unique and stand out from other guitarists, as each bridge aids your flair and playing style! What are the different bridge types?  The different bridge types include: Tune-O-Matic  [Fixed] Wrap-Around  [Fixed] Hardtail  [Fixed] Synchronized  [Tremolo Floating] Floyde Rose   [Tremolo Floating] Bigsby   [Tremolo Roller] Stetsbar  [Tremolo Roller] Duesenberg Les Trem   [Tremolo Roller] In this article, I will go through the different bridge types in loads of detail to you can understand replacements and overall  transform your playing!   Lets get started below… WHAT IS A GUITAR BRIDGE? Before, i go through in detail about the different types of guitar bridges let us first get on the same page and discuss the basics of a guitar bridge. Simply put a guitar bridge attaches to the body of the guitar with its purpose to an...

Stringing a steel string guitar – how to

  A young customer, a student, recently messaged me asking me to teach him how to restring a guitar. While I thought about how to explain to him, I also wondered that often, we talk about big issues, leaving the simplest and the most essential things unexplained. So, I decided that in this blog post, I will describe how  ‘I’  restring a guitar. It is essential to understand here that there are many ways in which people string up guitars. As long as the strings don’t slip out of the tuning post, or lose tuning, all those methods are correct. But first a little look at guitar anatomy. Guitar Strings is one of the important  guitar parts  and to take off the old strings, loosen the tuning keys (machine heads) enough and then using the notch in your string-winder, pull out the bridgepins. Do be careful about keeping the bridgepins in order, remembering which pin came out of which hole because not all strings are of similar diameter. Once a pin becomes used to a cert...