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Hi Spike! I saw your edits on silent guitar, and would like you opinion: do you agree that the link that was removed on this revision was advertisement? I think it was pretty informative and useful for the article... Maybe we could rephrase it and insert the info on the article, what do you think? Since I am no expert on the field, I had left the article as a stub when I created it, and linked to the site... Waldir 07:53, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello there! As far as I can tell, there are multiple manufacturers of silent guitars. Yamaha makes one, Traveler makes one, and that company Koopal makes one. Really, we probably should not have an equipment infobox in this article because the article is not about one particular guitar but a class of guitars.
The link that was removed was mostly informative but it includes a commercial order link for just the Koopal silent guitar. I would prefer to link the informational pages (for example http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/guitar/silent_guitar/index.html) for each type of silent guitar if we include external links. Does that makes sense? --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 16:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
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Could someone clarify exactly what a "silent guitar" is? Is it basically just a guitar with piezoelectric pickups and a built-in amplifier? I play guitar and have never heard the term. The sites that are linked in this article and its talk page are quite obscure; The Koopal[1] site just seems like a description of a normal electric guitar. The Yamaha[2] site is pretty obscure as well, and in the specifications page it says that it uses these[3] pickups, which to my eye at least, look like piezoelectric pickups.
And I also doubt that a silent guitar would have a hollow body, and neither of the above sites claim this, apart from a few words "or semi-solid" on the Koopal site, which seems to be describing a normal electric guitar anyway. The guitars pictured on the sites do not seem like hollow-bodies either. Could someone add references, and by that I mean good ones, the Koopal page describes an electric guitar. The picture should be changed as well, since the headstock is the same as in any other type of guitar. 85.76.253.210 (talk) 21:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
let me try:
yes we have a problem with the definition and the corresponding manufacturers and pictures! either we just talk about the Yamaha model with that name or we establish a category of instruments which can have any form, as long as it does not resonate and sound loud, right? Thats point 5 above. I do not agree with point point 3. "Travel" is a totally different story (and the Yamaha Silent is too long for it).
its so easy to connect a headphone amp to any guitar, that the point 1 and 2 and 4 are not essential either. to distinguish from a common electric guitar, we might leave point 1 because any amplified guitar output can be used for a headphone (and a cable mono-stereo).
the most important distinction from the electric guitar for me seems the intention to create the sound of an acoustic guitar so we could mention first the pioneers like Gibson (the mentioned Chet Atkins possibly was the first in the beginning of the 80ies!), Godin Multiac (probably sold the most of the kind in the 90ies), Paradis Avalon (the first headless nylon 1990), Frame (the first with that detachable frame), and then many more you can get if you google for "solid body acoustic guitar" Matigrob (talk) 12:31, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
The current picture of a silent guitar just shows the guitar's head which seems (to my non expert eyes) to be the same as any other guitar head. Maybe a more representative guitar showing the whole body would be better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.57.31.81 (talk) 19:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC)