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Guitar (other)
A guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument. An electric guitar is a guitar that uses electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its strings into electric signals. Guitar(s) may also refer to: Music Albums * ''Guitar'' (Peter Lang album), 2003 * ''Guitar'' (Tony Rice album), 1970 * ''Guitar'' (Sonny Sharrock album), 1986 * ''Guitar'' (Frank Zappa album), 1988 * ''Guitars'' (Aka Moon album), 2002 * ''Guitars'' (Mike Oldfield album), 1999 * ''Guitars'' (McCoy Tyner album), 2008 Songs * "Guitar" (song), by Prince from his 2007 album ''Planet Earth'' * "Guitar", from the 1998 album ''Prolonging the Magic'' by Cake * "Guitar", from the 2004 album '' Culture Vulture'' by Jesus Jones * "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)", by They Might Be Giants People * Bonnie Guitar (1923–2019), American musician, singer, and businesswoman * Guitar (nickname), people nicknamed "Guitar" Other uses * ''The Guitar'' (film), a 2008 American drama * Guitar, a musical p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A plectrum or individual finger picks may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant chamber on the instrument, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone – meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States; nylon strings came in the 1940s. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four- course Renaissance guitar, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Guitar
Bonnie Buckingham (March 25, 1923 – January 13, 2019), better known as Bonnie Guitar, was an American singer, musician, producer, and businesswoman. She was best known for her 1957 country-pop crossover hit "Dark Moon". She became one of the first female country music singers to have hit songs cross over from the country charts to the pop charts. She co-founded the record company Dolton Records in the late 1950s, that launched the careers of The Fleetwoods and The Ventures. In 1960, she left Dolton and became part owner of Jerden Records. Early life and rise to fame Born in 1923 in Seattle, Washington, United States, to John and Doris Buckingham, Bonnie was initially raised in Redondo Beach along Puget Sound. Later, the family (including her five siblings) moved inland to a farm just outside the rural town of Auburn. She began performing at age 16, having taken up playing the guitar as a teenager, which led to her stage name, Bonnie Guitar. She later started songwriting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flamenco Guitar
A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar but with thinner tops and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings, like the classical guitar, but it generally possesses a livelier, more gritty sound compared to the classical guitar. It is used in ''toque'', the guitar-playing part of the art of flamenco. History Traditionally, luthiers made guitars to sell at a wide range of prices, largely based on the materials used and the amount of decorations, to cater to the popularity of the instrument across all classes of people in Spain. The cheapest guitars were often simple, basic instruments made from the less expensive woods such as cypress. Antonio de Torres, one of the most renowned luthiers, did not differentiate between flamenco and classical guitars. Only after Andrés Avelar and others popularized classical guitar music, did this distinction emerge. Construction The traditional flamenco guitar is made of Spanish cypress, sycamore, or rosewood fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five-string Guitar (other)
Five-string guitar or five-string may refer to: Plucked * Baroque guitar, c. 1600–1750 * DADG tuning, bass guitar, with five strings (also often with four or six strings) ** Extended-range bass, extended-range electric bass guitar, with five strings (also often with six or occasionally more strings) * five-string banjo (also often with four or six strings) * six-string guitar with one string removed, often the low "E", and retuned * vihuela, from Spain, Portugal, or Italy c. 1450-1550 (also often with six courses of strings) ** Mexican vihuela, c. 1800–present, often played in mariachi groups Bowed * a five string violin, a modern version of a violin with an extra string (six and seven string electric violins also exist) See also * Guitar (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acoustic Guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. The original, general term for this stringed instrument is ''guitar'', and the retronym 'acoustic guitar' distinguishes it from an electric guitar, which relies on electronic amplification. Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4. Guitar strings may be plucked individually with a pick (plectrum) or fingertip, or strummed to play chords. Plucking a string causes it to vibrate at a fundamental pitch determined by the string's length, mass, and tension. (Overtones are also pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Guitar (other)
Alto guitar may refer to: * Eleven-string alto guitar, also called the ''altgitarr'', the Swedish name given to it by its Swedish inventor * Six-string alto guitar, a classical guitar with light strings and a small body, designed to be tuned higher than the normal classical guitar * Tenor guitar The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by Gibson and C.F. Martin so that players of ..., when tuned to G-C-E-A one fourth higher than the top four strings of the modern classical guitar See also * Guitar (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guitar (other)
The Guitar may refer to: * The guitar, the musical instrument * ''The Guitar'' (film), a 2008 film starring Saffron Burrows * "The Guitar" (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), a song and EP by They Might Be Giants See also * Guitar (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Guitar, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of Solomon (novel)
''Song of Solomon'' is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an :African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. This novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. In 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course named it the 25th best English-language novel of the 20th century. Plot Robert Smith, an African-American insurance agent, jumps off a roof while trying to fly as a crowd of people gather to watch. The appearance of Smith on the roof causes a woman named Ruth Dead to go into labor. In the chaos that follows, the hospital admits her and she delivers her son, Macon Dead III—the first African-American child born in the hospital. Macon Dead III grows up stifled, alienated, and disinterested in his home life in Southside. Even at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lückner
Michael Lückner is a German musician and composer known for his versatile work in the fields of ambient, electronic, and experimental music - Notable for his projects "Guitar", "Computerjockeys" and "Digital Jockey". History ''Sunkissed'', Lückner's first album under the ''Guitar'' moniker was released in 2001 and was "well-received". Its sound drew comparisons to My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine's album ''Loveless (album), Loveless''. ''Honeysky'' from 2004 was initially only released in Japan, where Lückner lived. ''Tokyo'' (2006) was inspired by the instruments Lückner encountered during his in Japan and features Koto (instrument), koto and pipa guitars, two guitars of the Japanese music tradition. Discography * Computerjockeys: ''Computerjockeys'' (1999, Harvest/EMI Electrola) * Digital Jockey: ''8 Studies in Dub considering global welfare as well as international charity stamps and letters'' (2000) * Computerjockeys: ''Plankton'' (2001, Island Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
