Acoustic Electric

Washburn Acoustic-Electric Guitars

An Acoustic-Electric Guitar is an acoustic guitar fitted with pickups, a microphone or transducers. Commonly used in folk and sometimes classical music as they possess the sound of an acoustic guitar but more volume if plugged into a speaker system. The first Acoustic-Electric Guitar was the "OVATION ROUNDBACK" developed by Charles H. Kaman in 1996,and built from fiberglass. It is a versatile instrument that offers the portability of an acoustic and the volume of an electric.