Much of what makes a guitar like that sound good depends on the pickups, however ... This is why an original Fender Telecaster sounds so different from a standard Stratocaster model, and why ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

The Sine guitar rocks movable pickups and a novel metal pad for swells and tremolo plus pedal control and expression. Yes, it looks very different from familiar models like Fender's Stratocaster ...

Its two pickup systems reproduce string vibration and body resonance while capturing ambience and offering resistance to ...

We explore the curious anatomy of Queen guitarist Brian May's guitar, which includes knitting needles and wood from a 300-year-old fireplace.