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Originally Posted by fumanchu1

I was talking about the material not the shape of it, type of wood, strength of material used (i.e. lap steel guitar) all affect tonality, sustain and vibration to a certain extent (obviously not as much as a hollow/semi hollow or acoustic guitar).


I assume the bass was made with a toy version of the ship and therefore is some type of plastic... which isn't ideal for tonality

Again, it doesn't matter in the case of a solid body electric guitar. That is because the body is supposed to be acoustically inert. It doesn't vibrate so it doesn't contribute to the sound. The sound is picked up entirely by the pickups from the strings. There is no acoustic resonanace in, say, a Fender Stratocaster.

The original electric guitar was the Gibson Les Paul. Les actually built a prototype electric guitar known as "the log", because it was essentially a neck, a set of strings, pickups, a bridge and a big chunk of wood for the body. Les' mother is credited with saying, "Les, no one will ever buy that -- it doesn't look anything like a guitar." So he adapted the design to look more like a guitar and the Gibson Les Paul was born. The shape of the body was completely irrelevant to the sound, but of course it did matter aesthetically.

This is not true with any sort of hollow body electric guitar; the resonant chamber will alter the sound significantly by acting as an acoustic filter on the strings, which is then subsequently picked up by the pickups. So I would suggest that the Millenium Falcon should be cast out of one piece of inert heavy plastic or perhaps ceramic. The deader the better. Electric guitar bodies are sometimes made of maple because it is very stiff and very dead acoustically.

And finally, the reason that a Les Paul sounds different from a Stratocaster is due mostly to the pickups; they are wound differently and have a different response curve. Kind of like two microphones sounding different. If you wanted to make a Millenium Falcon guitar or bass guitar, it could be done and would sound as good as a Flying V or an SG. The body shape is irrelevant as long as it doesn't vibrate.

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This is "the Log":



Note that the body doesn't actually matter at all.

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This is also a log.

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