In the early 1970s, when country legend Glen Campbell requested an electric model from Ovation Guitars, the company placed a piezoelectric pickup-one that read the strings’ vibrations and converted them to voltage-in one of its trademark round-backed guitars. To help make your job a little easier, we’ve compiled an overview of acoustic-electrics introduced this year. Given a market teeming with attractive options, it can be overwhelming, to say the least, to find the acoustic-electric guitar that’s right for your style and which sounds great acoustically while providing excellent reinforcement when needed.
Instrument makers work closely with pickup companies to find the optimal electronics for their offerings, and gig-ready acoustic-electric guitars, while once specialty items, can be had at all price points. 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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