Semi-hollow electrical guitars are a kind of electrical guitar that mixes the tonal traits of a hollow-body guitar with the maintain and suggestions resistance of a solid-body guitar. Semi-hollow electrical guitars characteristic a hole or semi-hollow physique with a number of sound holes, sometimes with a stable wooden prime and again. This design gives a heat, resonant tone with loads of maintain and projection, making them supreme for a variety of musical types, from jazz to blues to rock.
Semi-hollow electrical guitars had been first developed within the late Forties as a method to deal with the suggestions points related to hollow-body guitars. The addition of a stable wooden prime and again helped to scale back suggestions whereas nonetheless permitting the guitar to retain its pure resonance. Semi-hollow electrical guitars shortly turned standard with jazz and blues guitarists, who appreciated their heat, mellow tone. Within the Nineteen Sixties, semi-hollow electrical guitars had been adopted by rock guitarists, who had been drawn to their maintain and suggestions resistance. Immediately, semi-hollow electrical guitars are utilized by guitarists of all genres, from jazz to blues to rock to nation.
