The guitar player (c. 1672), by Johannes Vermeer |
Some History of the Classical Guitar
"Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, 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 six string classical guitar first appeared in Spain but was itself the product of a long and complex history of diverse influences. Like virtually all other stringed European instruments, the guitar ultimately traces back thousands of years, via the Middle East, to a common ancient origin from instruments then known in central Asia and India. It is therefore very distantly related with contemporary instruments such as the Iranian tanbur and setar and the Indian sitar. The oldest known iconographic |
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representation of an instrument displaying all the essential features of a guitar being played is a 3,300 year old
stone carving of a Hittite bard The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from Spanish guitarra, derived from the Arabic
qitara and Latin cithara, which in turn was derived from the earlier Greek word kithara, which perhaps derives from Persian sihtar.
Sihtar itself is related to the Indian instrument, the sitar.
Acoustic Guitars An acoustic guitar is one not dependent on an external device to be heard but uses a soundboard which is a wooden piece mounted on the front of the guitar's body. The acoustic guitar is quieter than other instruments commonly found in bands and orchestras so when playing within such groups it is often externally amplified. Many |
acoustic guitars available today feature a variety of pickups which enable the player to amplify and modify the raw guitar sound."
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