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The classical guitar typically has nylon strings.

The acoustic guitar features steel strings and more guide dots on the fretboard .

A guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with the fingers or a plectrum ( guitar pick). The sound is produced by vibrating strings.

Guitars have a body (which is hollow for acoustic guitars, and solid for most electric guitars) and a neck or fingerboard. At the extremity of the neck is generally a machine head for tuning.

Guitars may be acoustic, or electric (with electrical amplification), or a combination.

Guitars are used in a wide variety of musical styles. They are made and repaired by luthiers.

1 History

Instruments like the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years; murals in Egypt show women playing instruments like the guitar from the time of the Pharaohs, but the name "guitar" appears first in Spain in the 13th century. It was probably a deriviation of the ArabicArabic is a Semitic language, fairly closely related to, for instance, the Hebrew language and the Aramaic language, spoken throughout the Arab world and widely known outside it. It has been a literary language for over 1500 years, and is the liturgical l word qitara, the name of an instrument that was brought into Spain by the MoorsMoors is used in this article to describe the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called "Moorish". For other meanings look at Moors (Meaning) or Blackamoors. The name derives from the ancient Berber tribe of after the 10th Century. It also may have been derived from the sitarThe sitar is a Hindustani classical music instrument. It typically has a gourd acting as the resonating chamber. A distinctive feature is the frets, which are moveable (allowing fine variation in tuning) and raised (so that resonant, or sympathetic, strin, a similar centuries-old musical instrument and musical symbol of Hindu Goddess SaraswatiThis article is about Saraswati, the Hindu goddess. There are separate articles about the Vedic Sarasvati River and Saraswati River, a small river in Haryana In Hinduism, Saraswati (less frequently romanized as Sarasvati is the goddess of knowledge, wisdo.

The Spanish vihuelaString instruments The vihuela is a Spanish Renaissance string instrument that appears to be a cross between a lute and a Renaissance guitar. It usually was tuned like a 6-course lute, fourth fourth major third fourth fourth, though the smaller versions s appears to be an intermediate form, with luteThe lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, which was also the ancestor of the superficially similar oud. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both der-style tuning and a small guitar-style body, but it is not clear whether this represents a transitional form or simply a design that combined features from the two families of instruments.

The Electric Guitar was invented by Adolf Rickenbacker, along with the help of George Beauchamp and Paul Berth, in 1931. He was the inventor of the horeshoe-magnet pickup. However, it was Danelectro that first produced electric guitars for the wide public. Danelectro also pioneered Tube Amp technology.

2 Parts of the guitar

2.1 Headstock

The headstock is located at the extreme end of the guitar, and often contains the tuners, the nut, and some kind of decoration. This decoration usually indicates the maker or model of the guitar.

2.2 Machine head or tuners

Tuners are sometimes gear driven and sometimes held in place by friction. Their function is to adjust the tension on each individual string, allowing the guitar to be tuned. These can be basic wood pegs as found on some classical guitars, and some can be very well engineered and ornate.

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