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All sound, as seen via an oscillator, are vibrations of vastly varying degrees. The vibrations of guitar strings are fairly low to medium and an electronic pick-up wired to an amplifier is required to multiply the sound produced. You can still hear the strings without an amplifier, but electric Guitars don't often have a hollow body to reverberate the vibrations, so they aren't very loud. It's like the buzzing of a mosquito... barely audible unless right up to your ear, but imagine amplifying that! It would probably sound like a war plane.

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