The hollow-body and semi-hollow electric guitar types sound louder than a solid-body guitar when strummed without an amp. However, they're still not loud enough for most performance settings.

This solid body guitar is bound to help you harness the spirits of rock. Her Floyd Rose original bridge and two EMG pickups allow you to feel her pulse as you run the pick across her strings.

Solid body guitars, that’s your standard no-holes electric are exactly that - dense pieces of solid wood. Semi-hollow body guitars such as Gibson’s ES-335 feature a top, back and sides, but also use a ...

The scale length is 25.6” and you can have this as a regular six-string or for adventures in the extended-range you can order it up as a 7-string guitar. Again, it looks Fisher Price but it is no toy; ...

But the actual advent of the solid-body electric guitar, sometime in the 1940s, was a tangled tale of tinkerers, craftsmen, musicians and businessmen who hardly realized what they had unleashed.

If you have ever listened to rock, you have probably heard a solid-body swamp ash guitar. But now climate change is threatening the wood that helped build rock and roll.

To provide the electronic element of its hybrid design, the Acoustasonic Player Telecaster—which can partially trace its inspiration back to the first mass-produced solid-body guitars, released ...

One of the first electric guitars only involved an acoustic guitar and a block of wood. In 1940, Les Paul mounted strings on solid block of pine to minimize body vibrations on an electric guitar ...

The man who invented history’s most iconic electric guitar couldn’t play, or even tune it. But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” ...

Les Paul, who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.