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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GuitarGuitar - Wikipedia

    For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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    The word guitar was adopted into English from Spanish word guitarra in the 1600s. In the Middle Ages the word gitter or gittern was used in England. Both guitarra and gitter came from the Latin word cithara. The word cithara came from the earlier Greek word kithara. Kithara could have come from the Persian word sehtār[source?]. seh meaning "three" ...

    There have been instruments like the guitar for at least 5,000 years. The guitar may have come from older instruments known as the sitara from ancient India and central Asia. The oldest known picture of a guitar-like instrument is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard. The oldest guitar-like instrument that is still complete is the "Warwi...

    A guitar was described by Dr. Michael Kasha as an instrument that had "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides". Modern guitars come in four main types. The classical guitar is used for classical music. The term acoustic guitaris generally used for a guitar used for popular music, even tho...

    Guitars are used in many different genres of music, such as traditional, regional, and folk to modern punk, rock, metal or pop. Guitars are used as rhythm instruments, leadinstruments, and sometimes both.

    A capois a device which can be placed on any of the guitar's frets which don't lie on the body itself. This enables the user to change key without changing the tuning of the guitar strings. There are multiple types of capos, some latch around the whole guitar neck and some just clamp onto the back and fret board.

    Guitar physics Archived 2010-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
    International Guitar Research Archive Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
    The first rock guitars Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
    Online Guitar Tuner Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine- Standard Tuning.
  2. While the original, general term for this stringed instrument is guitar, the retronym 'acoustic guitar' – often used to indicate the steel stringed model – distinguishes it from an electric guitar, which relies on electronic amplification.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Guitar_chordGuitar chord - Wikipedia

    In music, a guitar chord is a set of notes played on a guitar. A chord's notes are often played simultaneously, but they can be played sequentially in an arpeggio. The implementation of guitar chords depends on the guitar tuning.

  4. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: A guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Most guitar necks have metal frets attached (the exception is fretless bass ...

  5. This category lists general guitar types and concepts and includes more specific categories. Refer to these categories for specific guitar models, manufacturers, effect units, parts, etc. See Category:Guitar family instruments for other instruments such as the bass guitar.

  6. The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, [1] is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings.

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