Acoustic Bass Guitars

How Do Acoustic Bass Guitars Work?

By Chris Holloway

Acoustic bass guitars are the deeper brothers of Western guitars. Acoustic bass guitars don't sound like acoustic basses when unamplified, they sound like guitars strung with heavy strings.

Acoustic bass guitars are made to be played along side an acoustic guitar and can be plugged in to enhance the sound or left unplugged, they feature hollow bodies just like an acoustic guitar, but the bodies are larger in size.

Typically equipped with piezoelectric or magnetic pickups and amplified Acoustic bass guitars are bass guitars without electronic pick-ups. The four string short scale bass guitar is the kind most commonly used by beginners. The lighter weight of the guitar allows a beginner to become accustomed to the weight of the guitar while they learn. 

Acoustic bass guitars are an extremely recent advent as compared with most other versions of the instrument. Other types of bass guitars include acoustic bass guitars which have hollow bodies, acoustic-electric bass guitars, and semi-acoustic bass guitars which are only partially hollow.

All About an Acoustic Bass Guitar

By Victor Epand 

One of the most demanding is the acoustic bass guitar. This is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to a bass guitar, though usually somewhat larger than a steel string acoustic guitar. A steel strung acoustic bass guitar is louder and sounds brighter than a classical guitar. 

Entry-level acoustic bass guitars are generally constructed entirely from laminated wood. But mid range acoustic bass guitars may sometimes have a combination of solid parts, often solid top and laminated woods. The acoustic bass guitar usually has a hollow wooden body similar to that of the steel string acoustic guitar. The majority of acoustic basses are fretted. The Earthwood acoustic bass guitar was introduced in 1972. 

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