The Gotoh GTC101, a hard-tail bridge
The term hard-tail can refer to a type of guitar bridge or a complete guitar model. A hard-tail is a fixed bridge not featuring a seperate bridge and tailpiece. Strings are usually mounted through-body and run over seperate adjustable saddles fixed to the bridge plate. An example of a hard-tail bridge used on Ibanez guitars is the Gotoh GTC101.
A guitar model can be called a hard-tail when it doesn't feature a tremolo system or vibrato tailpiece but a fixed bridge/tailpiece. The term mostly aplies to guitars which usually do have a tremolo, such as Fender Stratocaster type guitars and Ibanez RG models and S models. Most of these guitars feature a 'hard-tail' style bridge instead of a tremolo when being 'fixed'.
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