electric guitar

electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals
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electric guitar

Summary

electric guitar is a type of musical instrument[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,010 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • electric guitar is credited with the discovery of George Beauchamp[3].
  • electric guitar's image is recorded as Yngwie Malmsteen's electric guitar.jpg[4].
  • electric guitar's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[5].
  • electric guitar's audio is recorded as Clean-gain demo melody.ogg[6].
  • electric guitar's GND ID is recorded as 4151804-4[7].
  • electric guitar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh86008003[8].
  • electric guitar's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11961430c[9].
  • electric guitar's subclass of is recorded as electro-acoustic chordophone[10].
  • electric guitar's subclass of is recorded as guitar[11].
  • electric guitar's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00840998[12].
  • electric guitar's Commons category is recorded as Electric guitars[13].
  • electric guitar's country of origin is recorded as United States[14].
  • electric guitar's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 16820[15].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as pickup[16].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as string[17].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as neck[18].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as body[19].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as bridge[20].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as nut[21].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as potentiometer[22].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as electrical receptacle[23].
  • electric guitar's has part is recorded as tuning peg[24].
  • +1932-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of electric guitar[25].
  • electric guitar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02sgy[26].
  • electric guitar's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph119845[27].

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Works and Contributions

electric guitar is credited with the discovery of George Beauchamp[3].

Why It Matters

electric guitar ranks in the top 4% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,010 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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