At its core, the acoustic guitar can be distilled into two primary components: the body and the neck. The body, a capacious, hollow chamber, generates the guitar’s resonant tones, while the neck ...

Warmoth Hombre, Strat design, 25-1/2" scale, guitar neck; Grover 502G Rotomatic Tuners; Grover 520G Bridge, with notched saddles; ... Anatomy of an Electric Guitar. Illustration by Alyse Markel.

In Anatomy Of A Guitar, presenter Harry Shearer finds out how the instrument has evolved. The programme will strip it down to the essentials, then put it back together again so listeners will hear ...