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The History Of The Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots, used in a wide variety of musical styles.
The guitar usually has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist. Guitars are made and repaired by Luthiers.
Guitars are recognized as one of the primary instruments in blues, country, flamenco, rock music, and many forms of pop. It is also a solo classical instrument.
Guitars may be played acoustically or they may rely on an amplifier that can electronically manipulate tone. The electric guitar was introduced in the 20th century and continues to have a profound influence on popular culture.
Instruments similar to the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years. The guitar appears to be derived from earlier instruments known in ancient central Asia as the Sitara. Instruments very similar to the guitar appear in ancient cravings and statues recovered from the old Iranian capitol of Susa. The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from Spanish guitarra, derived from earlier Greek word kithara. Prospective sources for various names of musical instruments that guitar could be derived from appear to be a combination of two Indo-European roots: guit-, similar to Sanskrit sangeet meaning "music", and -tar a widely attested root meaning "chord" or "string".
The word guitar is a Persian loanword to Iberian Arabic. The word qitara is an Arabic name for various members of the lute family that preceded the Western guitar. The name guitarra was introduced into Spanish when such instruments were brought into Iberia by the Moors after the 10th century.
The Spanish vihuela or "viola da mano" is similar to the guitar of the 16th century. it seems to be a strange design that came about in the change from the renaissance to the modern guitar. It had lute-style tuning and a guitar-like body and it's construction had as much in common with the modern guitar as with its contemporary four-course renaissance guitar.
The vihuela was popular for only a short period of time and the last surviving publication of music for the instrument appeared in 1576. It is not known whether it represented a transitional form or was simply a design that combined features of the Arabic oud and the European lute.
Another aspect of the Spanish vihuela deals with how the guitar was seen within society. The Spanish vihuela was mostly played on the streets of Spain and in barbershops and taverns. Considered a common folk instrument it use was generally discouraged.
The Vinaccia family of luthiers was known for developing the mandolin and might have built the earliest existing six string guitar. Gaetano Vinaccia c1759 - 1831 has his signature on the label of a 6 string guitar built in Naples, Italy and a date of 1779. This guitar has been examined and does not show the tell-tale signs of alteration from a double-coarse guitar. Having said that, fakes are common for guitars and their labels in this day and age, and caution should be taken.
Modern dimensions of the classical instrument were established by Antonio Torres Jurado (1817-1892), working in Seville in the 1850s. Torres and Louis Panormo of London (active 1820s-1840s) were both responsible for demonstrating the superiority of fan strutting over transverse table bracing.
The electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in 1936. Beauchamp co-founded Rickenbacher which used the horseshoe-magnet pickup. However, it was Danelectro that first produced electric guitars for the general public.
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