Talk:Electric guitar
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The page as it existed was useless, full of misinformation and cliche, and displayed a total lack of NPOV regarding the instrument. This revision improved, I think, but it still needs a lot of work, particularly where the history is concerned. I deleted the "list of important electric guitarists" because there's no way that such a list could be inclusive of everyone that a small subgroup considers important. Important guitar players should be cited as necessary within the body of the article.JFQ
Where'd you put the deleted list? Perhaps it could be moved elsewhere? Somebody went to the trouble of collecting and compiling those names (not to mention typing them in), and it's a bit discouraging to have it all disappear! In the future, it's a good idea to copy and paste a deleted list like that into the talk page, in case others deem it meritorious and wish to do something with it. Sara Parks Ricker
It's in the history if anyone feels like reviving it. Quite frankly though, it was heavily slanted towards a certain type of player, and didn't seem to me to add anything to the article. In any case, it was mostly an incomplete duplication of the list at guitarist which strikes me as a much more appropriate place for such a list. In an entry under "electric guitar", a list of different peoples favorite electric guitarists does not seem to have the same sort of relevancy. IMHO, it seems like the links to specific players should relate to their specific contributions to the instrument, and should be included in the body of the article rather than as a (highly incomplete) list tagged on to the end. JFQ
It's a good rule of thumb to not delete content, but to find it a good home. I took the list out of the history to merge it with guitarist (which I'll probably move to List of guitarists... later), but only George Harrison had to be added. Anyway, I agree with your reasoning for removing it from the article, JFQ. Whenever I come across some out of place content like that and I don't know what to do with it, I simply copy it to the talk page. It's easier for people to get at than the history logs. --Stephen Gilbert
- I didn't notice that George Harrison wasn't on guitarist page, so deleted the list thinking it only contained duplicate content. Good thing you double checked. JFQ
Does anyone know about how the strings are numbered? I keep telling my friends that they're numbered starting with the high, trebly strings. The deep, thumping "low" strings actually have "higher" numbers, which leads to confusion. --Ed Poor
- I don't know how you number your strings, but when I was taught, 1 was the high E and 6 was the low E. Of course, string numbering is subjective. -- Gpietsch 16:22 Sep 27, 2002 (UTC)
- Thats right. The 1st string is the high 'e', the 6th is the bass 'e' (etc) -- User:GWO
I added a paragraph about Gibson's new digital guitar, but I'm not a musician and don't know anything about it beyond the marketing information in Gibson's announcement. I'm sure someone who knows more can improve on what I wrote. For example, I'm not qualified to assess the extent to which guitarists and music buffs have embraced or rejected the notion of a digital guitar, but that's probably worth a sentence or two. -- Pat Berry 16:21, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
Bad picture
The picture of the boy playing a stratocaster-like guitar is way to big and in general a bad picture. It fills no obvious function as stratocaster-like guitars is most likely not interesting for people reading about electric guitars. It would make more sense to have a picture of one of the famous guitar players mentioned, than a crappy picture of a random kid.
