Whois & Analysis for elderly.com

Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan, United States, with a reputation as a "megastore", a repair shop and a locus for folk music including bluegrass and "twang".

Specializing in fretted instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles.

Elderly maintains a selection of odd or rare instruments.

Elderly is known as the premier repair shop for fretted instruments, as one of the larger vintage instrument dealers in the United States, and as a major dealer of Martin guitars in particular.

Country rock is subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late-1960s and early-1970s.

These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.

Country rock began with Bob Dylan and The Byrds, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, Michael Nesmith, Poco and Pure Prairie League.

Country rock also influenced artists in other genres, including The Band, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, and George Harrison's solo work.

It also played a part in the development of Southern rock.

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a related genre of country music.

Influenced by the music of Appalachia, bluegrass has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music, and was also later influenced by the music of African-Americans through incorporation of jazz elements.

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings—which are typically made of steel, and which occurs when a guitarist strums, plucks or fingerpicks the strings—into electrical signals.

The vibrations of the strings are sensed by a pickup, of which the most common type is the magnetic pickup, which uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction.

The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to a loudspeaker, which makes a sound loud enough to hear.

The output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add "color" to the sound or change the sound.

Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and "overdrive", with the growling sound of the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric guitar as it is used in blues and rock music.

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically—by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound.

This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings.