Moreover, guitars need electronic amplication to simply be heard....

Gee, Rapaire, I am really surprised, and I think we might have inadvertently discovered the root of some of your difficulties here on the Mudcat. As an introduction to your remedial education, there is a subject called folk music, and there is a class of instruments known as "acoustic". Please Google these two terms and get them well-defined, as a starting step.

Once you get these basic definitions cleared up, a lot of what goes on in the forum here will make much more sense to you.

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