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Steinberger refers to a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger. The word Steinberger can be used to refer to either the instruments themselves or the company that produced them. Although the name has been applied to a variety of instruments, it is primarily associated with a minimalist "headless" design of electric basses and electric guitars. An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electronic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ...
Bass guitars typically have four strings instead of six as found on regular guitars. ...
Steinberger represents two different brands of string instruments, designed by the ingenious Ned Steinberger. ...
Instrument design
 Famous L-series "headless" Steinberger bass. The most famous Steinberger design is the L-series instrument, described as "broom", "boat oar" or "cricket bat" shaped. Initally produced as an electric bass and later as a guitar, the instrument was made entirely of a graphite and carbon fibre mix in two pieces. It had no headstock for tuning, tuning instead at a redesigned tailpiece using micrometer style tuners and special strings with a ball at both ends. This design quickly became known as "headless". The rationale for the overall design was the elimination of unnecessary weight, such as a heavy headstock, and the use of modern materials, such as graphite, for their advantages over older materials. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (150x628, 49 KB) Summary photo captured and enhanced by Mike Manning for the article Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation...
Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek γÏαφειν: to draw/write, for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. ...
Carbon fiber composite is a strong, light and very expensive material. ...
External, internal, and depth micrometers A micrometer is a widely used device in mechanical engineering for precisely measuring thickness of blocks, outer and inner diameters of shafts and depths of slots. ...
A string is a vibrating element used on many musical instruments, such as the violin, guitar, harp, and piano. ...
The all-synthetic construction gave a very "smooth" sound and feel, immediate note attack, and very even tonal response. Depending upon the preferences of the listener this was either a good thing, as it made the instrument sonically clean, or a bad thing, as it made the instrument sound synthetic and unnnatural. Steinberger was and still is proud of this dichotomy and one of their slogans was "We don't make 'em like they used to". A slogan is a memorable phrase used in political or commercial context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. ...
Another innovation created by Ned Steinberger for these instruments was the Trans-Trem, a transposing assembly that detuned the strings in parallel so that the entire tuning of the instrument could be changed immediately. Bass and guitar versions were available. Developed by Steinberger in 1984, the TransTrem guitar tremolo system keeps all six strings in tune with each other so chords stay in tune during tremolo operation. ...
Later designs included
- P-series guitars and basses featured a smaller wooden body with bolt-on composite neck. The body was more "arrow" or "mini-A" shaped than the rectangluar L series body.
- M-series guitars and basses, designed by Mike Rutherford, guitarist of Genesis, with English luthier Roger Giffin. These had a twin-cutaway wooden body and a bolt-on graphite neck, resulting in a more "traditional" look, still with the headless tuning system and optional Trans-Trem.
- K-Series guitars designed by American luthier Steve Klein. These featured an ergonomically designed body of non-standard shape again married to a headless graphite neck. A similar version is still made by luthier Lorenzo German, an employee of Klein who currently owns and runs Klein Electric Guitars
- Q series basses featured twin cutaway bodies and a bolt-on graphite neck. The body style was more modern than the M series. Introduced in 1990 the body went a significant revision in the mid 90's but kept the same moniker.
- S-series guitars and basses with a headstock for a very traditional look but unusual "gearless" tuning heads.
- Synapse guitars and basses are the latest instruments from Steinberger and are now in production. As well as a regular guitar model, the line also includes baritone guitars with a built-in Transcale capo that can be rolled up the frets. At the moment, they are only sold at Musician's Friend.
Several companies licensed the headless technology from Steinberger and produced all-wood clones or similar instruments. Hohner, for example, produced all-wood L-series copies and Cort produced headless guitars with different body designs. Current "official" all-wood instruments are sold under the Spirit by Steinberger brand. Michael John Cleote Crawford Mike Rutherford (born October 2, 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British musician. ...
Genesis is a Grammy Award winning English progressive rock band formed in 1967. ...
A luthier is someone who is capable of crafting and repairing any of the many types of stringed instruments. ...
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The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ...
A basic guitar capo A capo (short for capodastra) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. ...
Guitar Center is a chain of musical instrument retailers, located throughout the United States. ...
History and production The first Steinberger basses, as opposed to the NS instruments built with luthier Stuart Spector, were produced in 1979 in New York by Ned Steinberger essentially alone. A company, Steinberger Sound, was duly set up to manufacture the basses and later the guitars on a larger scale but demand always outstripped supply and the company was sold to Gibson in 1986. Gibson still retains rights over the Steinberger company name so that Ned Steinberger cannot call his new instruments "Steinbergers". This is analogous to the situation Leo Fender found himself in after the sale of his company to CBS in 1964. Ned Steinberger has run a company called "NS Design" since 1990 and produces electric double basses, Cellos and similar instruments, all with a number of interesting innovations in material and design. This article or section needs to be wikified. ...
Leo Fender working on a guitar Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991) was an American luthier who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded G&L Musical Products (G&L Guitars). ...
CBS (an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ...
Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...
Alternate meaning: Cello web browser A cropped image to show the relative size of a cello to a human (Uncropped Version) The cello (also violoncello or cello) is a stringed instrument and part of the violin family. ...
With changing musical fashions and the complex manufacturing and high prices putting off buyer and producer alike, Gibson stopped selling Steinberger guitars in the late 1990s. Enthusiasm for the instruments has now revived to a sufficient extent that they are again being produced and sold. The latest Steinberger line, known collectively as the Synapse line, comprise two guitar models and one bass guitar model. The new instruments are part wood, part graphite composite. The two guitar models most resemble the original Steinbergers, with rectangular bodies only slightly larger than the originals. One of the guitar models, the Trans Scale model, features a longer than average scale length and a built in adjustable capo. Buy moving the capo closer to the end of the neck, one can play notes lower than standard guitar tuning without having to detune. Detuning loosens the strings, changing the timbre of the notes played. By not forcing guitarist to detune to get lower notes, the Trans Scale allows guitarists to maintain consistent tone while playing lower than standard notes. In a string instrument, the scale length (often simply but confusingly called the scale) is the sounding length of the strings. ...
A basic guitar capo A capo (short for capodastra) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. ...
In music, timbre, also timber, (French, IPA /tæmbər/ as in the first two syllables of tambourine) is the quality of a musical note or sound which distinguishes different types of sound production or musical instruments. ...
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