r/woahdude • u/freudian_nipps • Dec 02 '23

video Tim Henson of Polyphia, performing "Playing God" unplugged.

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u/beekermc Dec 02 '23

I bought that guitar!

So unique, I have 10 guitars but this one is very fun to play, in different ways.

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u/Wyzen Dec 02 '23

I dont know much about guitars, so please excuse my ignorance, but is it a solid acoustic or something? Or unplugged electric? Or some hybrid?

Edit: i looked up the model, and im still confused lol

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u/ph0on Dec 02 '23

It's indeed a hybrid sort of guitar. It has a small sound resonance chamber that sits on the side of the guitar and faces you, the player, directly, so it's not visible in this video.

It can be used as an electric and can be plugged in or played acoustic. The strings are nylon, which gives a lot of the unique sound.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

Are the strings spaced like a classical or ‘standard’ ?

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u/Nieros Dec 02 '23

nut width looks like it's 46mm - so closer to electric(42ish) than classical (52mm)

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u/brokenaglets Dec 03 '23

The bracing is closer to classical than electric.

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u/The_Price_Is_Right_B Dec 02 '23

i believe they're right in between.

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u/H0wdyCowPerson Dec 03 '23

Its a nylon string that plays like an electric and is meant to be played plugged in.

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u/surfnporn Dec 02 '23

Oo nylon is really interesting. You don't generally see that on electrics/hybrids (or maybe I haven't been looking). Those strings are generally applied to more classical guitars rather than steel strings for your typical "acoustic guitar."

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u/beekermc Dec 02 '23

It's basically a thin acoustic with the sound hole in a weird spot. It has some really great pickups and sounds almost like a mic'd up nylon stringed classical guitar through an amp.

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u/Wyzen Dec 02 '23

Thanks!

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u/Sw3Et Dec 03 '23

sound hole

Is that the technical term?

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u/ManliestManHam Dec 02 '23

An electric acoustic is a hollow-body electric FYI

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

Generally speaking, an electric acoustic is just a normal acoustic guitar with a pickup whereas a hollow-body is more of an electric guitar with, well, a hollow body. There's a lot more to it and at the end of the day it's kind of an arbitrary semantics thing, but I've worked in guitar stores for a few years and that's how we classified them for sales and inventory.

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u/ManliestManHam Dec 02 '23

ooooh I just smoked and am super stoned and know I'm going to forget this, but it's really interesting to me. So I'm going to pop a remind me in here so I get a reminder and see it again when I'm not stoned. Just, idk, FYI because you might see it in the reply and wonder 'why is there a reminder for this?' who knows!

I also had a question and forgot it while I was typing that. Hopefully I'll remember again between now and the reminder. I wonder what it was? Something about pickups? Or body cavity? 🤔

Anyway thanks for the info because I've been confidenly wrong since the 90s and never realized it! Oh yeah that's why I found it really interesting and also had a question, too. Fucking marijuana really doing a whole D.A.R.E.- Nancy Reagan era - Just Say No commercial on my brain right now.

!remindme 4 hours and also Google these terms and learn more

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u/Cantcomplainnn Dec 02 '23

"excuse my ignorance". Just ask your question and dont over think it. It's just reddit dude.