Musicians, it seems, have always wanted to alter the sounds of their instruments. Over the course of centuries, strings have been added to guitars for a fuller sound. The composition of those strings ...
A version of this piece orginally appeared on The Week. Jimi Hendrix making his guitar "talk." Peter Tarnoff/Retna Ltd./Corbis The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, ...