The History of the Guitar

By Tyler Burkholder

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thought to be the ancestor Up until the 1960s the of was guitar the predominantly modern thought to have been a direct guitar. descendent of
the Greek Lure however research shows us that this is false and the guitar comes from another 4/29/12 line of

now known as the Since then it is believed that the ancestor of the original guitar started with instruments now predeces known as bowl harps and sor to tanburs. the These usually were made with guitar. tortoise shells for

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the body and to amplify sound, and a long bent stick for a neck, and for strings often animal guts or silk strands were used.

Pictured right is a lute

The Moors brought the an instrument called an oud to Europe. The Europeans. Added frets and called it a lute. Which is defined as 4/29/12 a short

To the right is a dotar which is a two stringed instrument

The name guitar comes from the Sanskrit word for string which is tar This usually has a prefix indicating the number of strings. Some examples are the dotar, sectar, chartar, and 4/29/12 the

To the right is an example of early guitars

in roman architecture

Early guitars all came from Europe Asia and the middle east areas. These early instruments often had four strings, many variations of these can be scene in Roman architecture and paintings, often with three to five strings. These sculptures and paintings are apparent from the 4/29/12 dark ages to the

The five course battante pictured right

By the start of the renaissance the four course guitar was prominent in most of Europe. The four course guitar was a guitar with four sets of tuned strings. The earliest known written music for guitar is chithara . Chithara was written in Spain. The five course battente was 4/29/12 developed in Spain

The modern classical design of a guitar is pictured to the right

A sixth course of strings was added in Italy and soon that became the trend in Europe. Soon after the 4/29/12 simple

To the right is a modern day electric guitar.

In 1900 steel strings were added to add volume. In 1920 the first jazz guitar was made. Later in the 1920s electric pickups were added to jazz and Hawaiian guitars but were of little success until 1936. When electronic amplification was invented, sound holes in guitars where done away with. And multiple people were experimenting with solid body guitars but 4/29/12 know one is sure of

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