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Laminated Lap steel guitar Lead Left hand tapping Legato Let ring Let ring throughout Lick Locking nut Locking tremolo system Loudspeaker Lutherie Luthier |
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| Laminated | In the context of guitars, laminated refers to the top and back of an acoustic guitar being made of thin plies of wood that are glued together, as opposed to solid wood guitars. |
| Lap steel guitar |
Another term for Hawaiian guitar |
| Lead | 1. Short for electric lead guitar |
| 2. Another term for cable | |
| 3. Main instrument | |
| Left hand tapping |
Essentially just a hammer-on with the fretting hand but without the string being plucked. See also Tapping and Right hand tapping |
| Legato | A style of music with a smooth and unbroken flow. In the context of guitar music legato is achieved by techniques that avoid the need to pluck the strings, such as slurs (hammer-ons and pull-offs) and slides. Full article on Hammer-ons & Pull-offs |
| Let ring | An instruction in written music that states you should allow notes to sound (let the string vibrate) until the sound fades or until the string has to be re-plucked. |
| Let ring throughout | An instruction in written music that states you allow all notes to ring until the riff is finished |
| Lick | A sequence of notes forming a repeatable or distinguished sound. Licks are like phrases in a vocabulary that you can build guitar solos from. |
| Locking nut | A type of nut that is found on guitars with a locking tremolo system. It consists of a strip of metal that hold the tension of the strings via small metal plates that can be screwed into place. |
| Locking tremolo system | A type of tremolo system patented by Floyd Rose that involves a flexible floating bridge that responds smoothly to the vibrato bar. It's sometimes called the 'double-locking' system because the strings are locked at the bridge and the nut using nut locks. Every time you alter the tension on any of the strings the floating bridge moves and puts the other strings out of tune. This leaves you having to tune your guitar twice before attaching the nut locks, making tuning difficult. Syn - Floyd Rose tremolo system, Floyd Rose vibrato system, Double-locking system, Double-locking vibrato system and Locking Vibrato system |
| Loudspeaker | A piece of electrical equipment that produces amplified sound. Used in conjunction with an amplifier either in separate units (an amplifier stack) or in one unit (a combo amp). |
| Lutherie | Knowledge of guitars and the craft of making guitars |
| Luthier | A manufacturer of lutes and guitars, acoustic guitars in particular. |