Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
