Then came steel strings, and that led to the lap guitar—which is also called the steel guitar because the player slides a steel rod up and down the neck.

然后出现了钢丝弦，接着膝上吉他就诞生了。膝上吉他也被称为钢吉他，因为演奏者会在琴颈上下滑动一个钢棒。

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I say guitar because that is the instrument used, but the many layers of guitar sound more like trombones, clarinets, saxaphones.. Etc.

我说吉他是因为那是这里所使用的乐器，但是吉他的很多声部听上去更像长号、单簧管和萨克斯管这些乐器。

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Fender was working alongside the earliest electric guitar designers throughout the 1930s and 1940s, even applying for his own patent on his 1944 Hawaiian guitar design.

40年代，芬达一直在和最早的电吉他设计师们一起工作，他甚至给自己的1944夏威夷吉申请了一项专利。

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The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different.

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I don't know how well you can make it out but there's a little broom guy there with glasses, playing air guitar with his broom, and I guess this is meant to capture the spirit of the contributors.

我不知道你们能理解到什么程度,但是在那儿有一个戴着眼镜的男孩，用他的扫帚在弹着吉他，我猜这个的寓意是指要抓住那些发起人的精神内涵。

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I'll see, like, some people, you know, playing guitar on the street corners.

我总是可以看到很多人在街角弹吉他。

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Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.

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The band and the crew gave particular attention to those lingering seconds between songs when the keys modulate and the guitar techs pass different instruments to the musicians.

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