The Guitar by BringMoreLegos

What is the term for a maker or modifier of guitars, derived from the name of an ancestral instrument?

There are most commonly 21, 22, or 24 of these on an electric guitar, though acoustic models may have fewer. What is the name of this component, which sets apart the guitar from a number of other stringed instruments?

Many guitars are trimmed with inlays made from a naturally occurring iridescent substance called nacre. What is the common name of this shiny semi-organic material?

Epiphone, a subsidiary of Gibson, manufactures low-cost guitars in the style of its parent company (usually by constructing them overseas). What is the medieval-sounding brand name that serves the same role for Fender guitars?

This diagram is associated with what high-end guitar manufacturer? (Click for the pic!)

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Pickups (the sensors that convert string vibration to an electrical signal) are typically manufactured in single-coil or double-coil arrangements. What is the slangy common name for a double-coil pickup?

Yeah, let's do another question about pickups. Many pickups use alnico magnets, made from a kind of iron alloy containing what other metals?

What is the term for the specialized guitar design shown here? (Click for the pic!)

Either the general term or the brand name that has become generic will be accepted.

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Stringing a standard guitar with only the sympathetic strings from a 12-string set creates an unusual tuning in which the lower four strings sound an octave higher than normal. The technique added variety to layered guitar parts and was first adopted by producers in what musical city, for which this tuning is named?

What guitar manufacturer introduced this unusual headstock-less design, built from synthetic materials? The company (still active today) was acquired by Gibson in 1987, a year before its founder's father would win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the muon neutrino. (Click for the pic!)

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On the subject of guitar innovators with talented ancestors: Ernie Ball shared a name with his grandfather, a composer best known for writing what early 20th century popular song (despite not being, ah, ancestrally qualified)? The song was once performed on television by the leaders of the United States and Canada.

And since I'm a fan of Ernie Ball (the younger)'s line of strings: What playful word has been redacted from this image? (Click for the pic!)

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