Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing is the use of machines, tools, and labor in the production of electric and acoustic guitars. This phrase may be in reference to handcrafting guitars using traditional methods or assembly line production in large quantities using modern methods. Guitar manufacturing can also be broken into several categories such as body manufacturing and neck manufacturing, among others. Guitar manufacturing includes the production of alto, classical, tenor, and bass tuned guitars (with classical being the most widely used tuning). A luthier is a person who has learned the craft of making string instruments including guitars, generally on a
Contrabass guitar acoustic bass guitar, so it lacks the "thick" tone of those instruments. Contrabass guitars from the 1970s are often tuned "B0-E1-A1-D2-G2-C3" (B0 being the lowest B on a standard 88 key piano). Some players prefer "B0-E1-A1-D2-F#2-B3"— which preserves the intervals of a standard guitar tuning and makes the top and bottom notes the same pitch. They are usually electric instruments with a solid wooden body. After guitar maker Carl Thompson made a first, arguably non-satisfying attempt to create such an instrument in 1974, Ken Smith built the first entirely usable electric contrabass guitar in 1982. This was again at the