A hybrid guitar is an electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

 with the ability to produce a signal with the tonal quality of an acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

 in addition to a typical electric signal from a magnetic pickup, allowing a wide tonal pallette performers with a varied repertoire. Hybrid guitars typically
use a piezoelectric pickup to generate the acoustic-like signal.

Such pickups can produce a reasonable facsimile of acoustic tone even in solid bodied instruments. Examples of solid-body hybrid guitars include the Ovation VXT, Godin

Godin (Guitar Manufacturer)

- History :Godin started building Robert Godin's guitars in 1972 in La Patrie, Quebec.Godin Guitars' head office is located in Montreal, and they build their instruments in six factories in four different locations, three in Quebec and one in New Hampshire....

 A6 Ultra, and Tom Anderson Guitarworks

Tom Anderson Guitarworks

Tom Anderson Guitarworks is an American guitar manufacturer based in Newbury Park, California. Due to their high quality models, use of specific tone woods, low volume production and being highly sought after by professional musicians, Tom Anderson Guitarworks is generally considered to be a...

  Crowdster Plus One and Two.
They are similar to silent guitar

Silent guitar

A silent guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or chambered body that converts the vibration of the strings into electric current using a piezoelectric pickup. The body of the guitar does not amplify the vibration of the strings into audible sound...

s, except that the latter do not have magnetic pickups.
Small-bodied hybrid guitars like the Steinberger

Steinberger

Steinberger refers to a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger. The word Steinberger can be used to refer to either the instruments themselves or the company that produced them...

 Synapse SP2FA and can double as travel guitar

Travel guitar

Travel guitars are small guitars with a full or nearly full scale length, as opposed to normally proportioned half and three quarter scale length guitars intended for children.Examples include* Höfner Shorty* C. F. Martin Backpacker...

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Hollow bodied hybrid guitars are also possible. Examples include the Hamer

Hamer

Hamer may refer to:People with the surname Hamer:*Hamer In places:* Hamer, Idaho* Hamer, South CarolinaOther:* Hamer people, who live in Ethiopia* Hamer language, language of the Hamer people...

 Duotone Custome (claimed to be the first hybrid guitar)Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly Guitars

Michael Kelly Guitars is an American guitar, bass and mandolin manufacturer, based in Clearwater, Florida. They are a division of Hansor Music Group, who also own B.C. Rich Guitars, Rockfield Pickups, and Kustom amplifiers. Michael Kelly Guitars was founded in 1999...

 hybrid, Taylor

Taylor Guitars

Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon, California‐based luthier, specializing in acoustic guitars, as well as semi-hollow and solidbody electric guitars. It was established in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.- History :...

 T5 and, Ibanez

Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...

 Montage Crafter

Crafter

Crafter is the international division of Sung-Eum music Co Ltd. It is a manufacturer of acoustic and electric guitars.-History:Founded by Hyun Kwon Park in April 1972, the first "factory" of Sung-Eum music Co Ltd. was in Hyun's own basement. During this so called "early period," they produced...

 SA. These resemble semi-acoustic guitar

Semi-acoustic guitar

A semi-acoustic guitar or hollow-body electric is a type of electric guitar with both a sound box and one or more electric pickups. This is not the same as an electric acoustic guitar, which is an acoustic guitar with the addition of pickups or other means of amplification, either added by the...

s with additional piezo pickups,
The Yamaha

Yamaha

Yamaha may refer to:* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company...

 AEX1500 is a hybrid archtop guitar

Archtop guitar

An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with blues and jazz players.Typically, an archtop guitar has:* 6 strings...

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The signal from the two pickup systems can be blended onboard, or (sometimes on the same instrument) fed separately to two different effect and amplification

Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed to make the signal of an electric or acoustic guitar louder so that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker...

 lines.

Aftermarket piezo pickups, often built into bridges, are available, allowing conventional electric guitars to be converted into hybrid guitars.