Talk:Electric guitar

message: To summarize my previous comments (now archived):
*per WP, An electric guitar is a fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body
**a lap steel has neither functional frets nor a neck
**therefore, a pickup DOES NOT make a lap steel an "electric guitar"
*and an acoustic guitar with a stuck-on contact microphone IS NOT an "electric guitar"
*if there is a "first," it is most likely the Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts
**but seeing as less than 50 total quantity were produced & sold between 1931-1937, a better criterion would likely be "first commercially successful electic guitar"
Give it a thought.Weeb Dingle (talk) 04:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the first" 

message: My vote is to entirely get rid of Electric guitar#Playing techniques.
* It is heavily HOWTO and has been marked as such since April 2018.
* It slyly swaps out "guitar technique" for "extended guitar technique."
* The only citation is a HENDRIX IS GOD tribute to controlled feedback.
* Using feedback as a wedge, it has stretched "technique" out of shape to include the Fernandes Sustainer and the Heet EBow, which swings the door wide to include any electronic device or recording trick as "a technique."
In sum, it's at best redundant with Category:Guitar performance techniques. After the brief intro section, the interested reader can head on over to Extended technique, so nothing is lost in the uncluttering.Weeb Dingle (talk) 02:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  why it's gone: "techniques" section 

message: For some reason, lowercase sigmabot III is targeting this Talk page, and (coincidentally, I suppose) squirrelling away my posts.
My understanding is that notable changes to an article are supposed to be backed up by a Talk discussion, and more-significant overhauls should be in fact preceded by opportunity for general discussion (so that the "group mind" might achieve some sort of consensus).
I attempt to explain why I'm making the sometimes substantial changes to Electric guitar. If no discussion ensues, a secondary benefit of an explanatory Talk post is establishing guidelines (albeit subject to change) that are specific to that article. So, should an editor view Electric guitar and decide to add the very sort of information that's actually been removed, the tacit "rules" can be explored in Talk and maybe revised.
This hasn't been working out so well. In as little as two months (or even less), the bot wanders in and duly hides away my rationale — and as well opportunity for discussion. 
Bizarrely enough, the bot has time-and-again been leaving two ancient unsigned posts (for which "non sequitur" is an understatement), a 2010 review, and a 2016 "External links modified" notice, so it's not as though Sigmabot has demonstrated any rudimentary housekeeping skill.
I reverted some of the archivings, and may bring more back. Of course, even this is open to discussion and compromise… assuming, of course, this post isn't buried by the end of the month.Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:45, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  restorations to this page 

message: Jamaican inventor named Hedley Jones - who BEAT Les Paul, Bigsby, Fender, AND Gibson Guitars to the solid wood body Spanish electric guitar with his "Automatic Guitar" in 1940! But he didn't stop there. His accomplishments also include possibly being the first guitar amp maker to exceed 100 watts, the first to invent Jamaican "sound system culture", and the first to produce a DOUBLE-NECK electric guitar  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:AA16:400:A1B2:8563:8F09:77C7 (talk) 20:53, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  first solid body electric guitar