There are now seemingly endless choices of guitar/pickup combinations to suit the needs of players in a variety of styles. In the last few decades, pickups have come a long way for the performing acoustic guitarist. And the first acoustic-electric guitars-like the P-90-equipped Gibson J-160E that John Lennon made famous in his television appearances with the Beatles-didn’t really sound convincingly acoustic either, nor did instruments like Martin’s short-lived D-18E and D-28E of the late 1950s. From the November/December 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JANE MILLER AND ADAM PERLMUTTERĪcoustic guitarists who have been around long enough can tell stories about the days of trying to be heard in a band: standing still in front of a mic while battling feedback or using the earliest of aftermarket pickup options and sounding like all wires and no wood.
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