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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Electric guitars use a pickup that works with the metal strings, so
has an input designed for this.

I'd guess that a violin would use a normal microphone, so needs an amp
suitable for this.

Most acoustic guitars use a piezo pickup. The main difference between the
amplifier types is that amps for electric are designed to distort tonally
('voiced') and to overload, while those for acoustic stay clean, more like a
hifi or PA amp. Dunno what an electric violin will have - I've seen 'frame'
style leccy fiddles which use some sort of pickup.


My skeleton violin has a piezo pick-up under the bridge, with a pre-amp
in the instrument.

Is the pick-up needed for a conventional hollow-bodied instrument or a
skeleton one?

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Chris Morriss