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GUITARS
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It
typically has six strings
, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelvestring guitars also exist. Guitars are recognized as one of the
primary instruments inblues
,
country
, flamenco,
rock music
, and many forms of pop. This is also a
soloclassical instrument.
Guitars may be played
acoustically, where the tone is produced by vibration of thestrings and modulated by the hollow body, or they may rely on an amplifier thatcan electronically manipulate tone.
Such electric guitars were introduced in the 20thcentury and continue to have a profound influence on popular culture.
Traditionallyguitars have usually been constructed of combinations of various woods andstrung with animal gut, or more recently, with either nylon or steel strings.Indian Origin
Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, aguitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat woodensoundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides".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 India andCentral Asia as the “
Sitara”
. The oldestknown iconographic representation of aninstrument displaying all the essential featuresof a guitar being played is a 3300 year oldstone carving of a Hittite bard. The modern
word “Guitar” was adopted
into English
from Spanish
“
guitarra
”,
derived from theLatin word “cithara”
,
which in turn wasderived from
the 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 Spanish
vihuela
or "viola da mano", a guitar-like instrument of the 16th century,appears to be an aberration in the transition from the renaissance instrument to themodern guitar. It had lute-style tuning and a guitar-like body
.
Its construction had asmuch in common with the modern guitar as with its contemporary four-courserenaissance guitar.The Vinaccia family of luthiers is known for developing the
mandolin
, and may have built the earliest extant six string guitar. Gaetano Vinaccia has his signature on thelabel of a guitar built in Naples, Italy for six strings with the date of 1779. This guitar has been examined and does not show tall-tale signs of modifications from a double-course guitar although fakes are known to exist of guitars and identifying labels fromthat period.The electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in 1936.However, it was Danelectro that first produced electric guitars for the wider public.
Acoustic guitars
An acoustic guitar is one not dependent on an external device to be heard. Theacoustic guitar 
is quieter than other instruments
commonly found in bands andorchestras so when playing within such groups
it is often externally amplified
. Manyacoustic guitars available today feature a variety of pickups which enable the player toamplify and modify the raw guitar sound.There are several notable subcategories within the
acoustic guitar group
:
classicaland flamenco guitars
; steel string guitars, which include the flat top or 
"folk"guitar
; twelve string guitars and the arch top guitar. The acoustic guitar group alsoincludes
 
unamplified guitars designed to play in different registers such as theacoustic bass guitar which has a similar tuning to that of the electric bass guitar.
 
 
Electric guitar
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