Acoustic Guitars

The Starcaster by Fender Pack delivers a great-sounding dreadnought acoustic guitar and all the essential accessories a starting player needs! Accessories include strings, picks, a strap, a tuner, a gig bag and an instructional DVD!

Learn guitar the fun and easy way, the FOR DUMMIES way, with this complete Acoustic Guitars Starter Pack FOR DUMMIES; This beginner package comes with a 120-page GUITAR BASICS FOR DUMMIES book with a bonus audio CD, a High Quality Kona acoustic guitar that has a spruce top, precision die-cast tuners, linden back and sides full body and neck binding, gig bag, 3 picks plus a digital tuner for easy tuning and a 10 year limited warranty.

The Kona Guitar Company, looking to make learning to play guitar easy and hassle-free, has launched an exciting new addition to the For Dummies line of products. After the great success of the original Guitar For Dummies book, it only made sense to team up with the Kona Guitar Company to produce a complete guitar starter pack for beginners, which includes a customized version of the popular guide. This Guitar Starter Pack includes a deluxe 39" Kona acoustic guitar, gig bag, digital tuner, 3 picks and a custom version of Wiley Publishing's top-selling book, Guitar Basics For Dummies that includes an instructional CD that you can play along to while you learn.

Acoustic Guitars

Wiley Publishing and The Kona Guitar Company are making learning to play guitar fun and easy by providing everything the beginner needs in one complete package. Guitar Basics For Dummies will guide you with step-by-step instructions. The book presents the exciting art of guitar playing in a concise, lighthearted and conversational way that will help you get started without any formal mumbo jumbo getting in the way. The guitar itself features precision enclosed tuners, spruce top for rich sound, linden back and sides, steel strings, attached pick guard and a 10 year warranty. Acoustic Guitar Starter Pack For Dummies Includes: 
    * Deluxe 39" Kona acoustic guitar
    * Spruce top
    * Linden back and sides
    * Enclosed, die-cast machine heads
    * Custom fit gig bag
    * Digital guitar tuner
    * Three guitar picks
    * Guitar Basics For Dummies book
    * Instructional CD
    * 10-year manufacturer warranty. 

A marvel for its price, the traditional dreadnought design makes for one very playable guitar with a great, full tone. Perfect for strumming or fingerpicking any style of music, it's no wonder this guitar has been so highly rated by our customers. Features a genuine spruce top, die-cast tuning machines, 25-1/2" scale nato neck, and bound rosewood fretboard. It's easy to tune and stays that way. Rich, resonant sound and excellent projection and intonation make this a first guitar to be proud of. It's also great for camping or as a second guitar. Each guitar ships with genuine Martin strings for a quality sound right out of the box.

A remarkable value, the S35 Jasmine by Takamine features a spruce top with nato back and sides. Full body binding, chrome machines, and an adjustable neck are combined in one very playable dreadnought. The satin finish maximizes resonance. 

In all types of acoustic guitars the vibration of the strings produces the sound. However, because the strings can only displace a small amount of air, the volume of the sound needs to be increased in order to be heard. In an acoustic guitar, this is accomplished by using a soundboard and a resonant cavity, the sound box. The body of the guitar is hollow. The vibrating strings drive the soundboard through the bridge, making it vibrate. The soundboard has a larger surface area and thus displaces a larger volume of air, producing a much louder sound than the strings alone.

As the soundboard vibrates, sound waves are produced from both the front and back faces. The sound box provides both a support for the sound board and a resonant cavity and reflector for the sound waves produced on the back face of the soundboard. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibration modes of the string, increasing the volume of the sound again. The back of the guitar will also vibrate to a lesser extent, driven by the air in the cavity. Some sound is ultimately projected through the sound hole (some variants of the acoustic guitar omit this hole, or have f holes, like a violin family instrument). This sound mixes with the sound produced by the front face of the soundboard. The resultant sound is a complex mixture of harmonics that give the guitar its distinctive sound.

No amplification actually occurs in this process, in the sense that no energy is externally added to increase the loudness of the sound (as would be the case with an electronic amplifier). The plucking of the string provides all the energy. The function of the entire acoustic system is to maximize intensity of sound, but since total energy remains constant, this comes at the expense of decay time. An unamplified guitar (one with no soundboard at all) would have a low volume, but the strings would vibrate much longer, like a tuning fork. This is because a damped harmonic oscillator decays exponentially, with a mean life inversely proportional to the damping. When the strings are driving the larger soundboard and sound box, the damping is much higher.

Acoustic Guitars are a real joy to learn, entertain your friends, or even enjoy your own band experience.

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