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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: A

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 strin ...

is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Most guitar necks have metal frets attached (the exception is fretless bass guitars). Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern 2010-era guitars are made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric. An acoustic guitar has a wooden top and a hollow body. An electric guitar may be a solid-body or hollow body instrument, which is made louder by using a pickup and plugging it into a guitar amplifier and speaker. Another type of guitar is the low-pitched

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

Instrument classification

A guitar can be described as all of the following: * Musical instrument **

Chordophone String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the ...

** Rhythm section instrument

Types and varieties of guitars

Standard guitar variations

* Acoustic guitar * Acoustic-electric guitar *

Archtop guitar An archtop guitar is a hollow electric or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players. Typically, an archtop guitar has: * Six strings * An ...

* Classical guitar *

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

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 clas ...

* Flat top guitar *

Fretless guitar A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. The classic fretless guitar was first ...

Hybrid guitar A hybrid guitar is an electric guitar with the ability to produce a signal with the tonal quality of an acoustic guitar in addition to a typical electric signal from a magnetic pickup, allowing a wide tonal pallette. The signal from the two-pickup ...

Parlor guitar Parlor or parlour guitar usually refers to a type of acoustic guitar smaller than a Size No.0 Concert Guitar by C. F. Martin & Company. ''Mottola's Cyclopedic Dictionary of Lutherie Terms'' describes the term as referring to "any guitar that is ...

Resonator guitar A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guit ...

Selmer guitar The Selmer guitar — often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by English speakers, as early British advertising stressed the designer rather than manufacturer — is an unusual acoustic guitar best known as the favored inst ...

(Maccaferri) *

Semi-acoustic guitar A semi-acoustic guitar, hollow-body electric, or thinline is a type of electric guitar that was first created in the 1930s. It has a sound box and at least one electric pickup. The semi-acoustic guitar is different to an acoustic-electric guita ...

Silent guitar A silent guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or chambered body that converts the vibration of the strings into electric current using a piezoelectric pickup. The body of the guitar does not amplify the vibration of the strings into audible ...

* Steel-string acoustic guitar *

Tailed bridge guitar The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on the electric guitar and other string instruments that allows a musician to produce distinctive timbres and overtones that are unavailable on a conventional string instrument with two br ...

Pitch-based variations

* Alto guitar * Baritone guitar *Bass guitars **

Contrabass guitar A contrabass guitar is a low-register bass guitar with four, five or six strings. It is often called, simply, a ''six string bass guitar''. The ''five string bass guitar'' is rarely called a contrabass guitar, even though it typically has the sam ...

Acoustic bass guitar The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar ...

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Niibori guitars * Octave guitar *

Requinto The term requinto is used in both Spanish and Portuguese to mean a smaller, higher-pitched version of another instrument. Thus, there are ''requinto'' guitars, drums, and several wind instruments. Wind instruments ''Requinto'' was 19th-century S ...

* Soprano 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 ...

* Terz guitar

Steel guitars

* Lap steel guitar (aka Hawaiian guitar) * Pedal steel guitar

Courses

* Single course * Double course (e.g., 12-string guitar) * Triple course (e.g.

Tiple A tiple (, literally treble or soprano), is a plucked typically 12-string chordophone of the guitar family. A tiple player is called a ''tiplista''. The first mention of the tiple comes from musicologist Pablo Minguet e Irol in 1752. Although ma ...

Colombiano) * Four or more strings per course (e.g. Guitarron Chileno)

Extra strings

Seven-string guitar The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also to extend the treble range. The additional string is added in one of two different ways: b ...

– Russian guitar and electric guitar *

Eight-string guitar An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven. Eight-string guitars are less common than six- and seven-string guitars, but they are used by a few classical, jazz, and metal guitarists. The ...

* Nine-string guitar *

Ten-string guitar There are many varieties of ten-string guitar, including: * Both electric and acoustic guitars. * Instruments used principally for classical, folk and popular music. * Both coursed and uncoursed instruments. Uncoursed ten-stringed guitars ...

* 11-string guitar *

Twelve-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

* 13-string guitar *Extended-range bass – Covers bass guitars with 5 or more strings

Fewer strings

* Three-string guitar * Four-string guitar (disambiguation), Four-string guitar * Five-string guitar (disambiguation), Five-string guitar

Misc

* Harp guitar * Gittler guitar * Lyre-guitar * Nano guitar * Portuguese guitar * Prepared guitar * Vintage guitar

Models

6-strings

Acoustic guitar models

*C. F. Martin & Company, CF Martin & Company Dreadnought (guitar type), Dreadnought *Gibson J-45 *Ovation Roundback

Semi-acoustic models

*Gibson ES-335 *Rickenbacker 360 (Both 12-string and 6-string models) *Gretsch White Falcon

Solid body electric models

*Fender Stratocaster *Fender Telecaster *Gibson Les Paul *Gibson SG *Gibson Flying V *Superstrat *Steinberger

Bass guitars

s are also called "electric basses". *Fender Jazz Bass *Fender Precision Bass *Violin Bass *Alembic Bass

Parts

* Body: The solid body of an electric and the hollow sound box of an acoustic * Bridge (instrument), Bridge * Fingerboard (fretboard) * Frets * Guitar wiring, Wiring and electronics (including volume and tone controls) * Headstock (peghead, head) * Inlay (guitar), Inlay * Machine heads (tuners) * Neck (music), Neck * Neck joint: see Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck and Neck-thru * Nut (string instrument), Nut * Pickguard * Pickup (music technology), Pickup (Electric – Single coil (including P-90), Humbucker) (Acoustic – Piezoelectric sensor, Piezoelectric) * Sound board (music), Sound board (Acoustic) * String (music), Strings * Truss rod

Guitar accessories

Miscellaneous

*Capo (musical device), Capo *Guitar pick *Fingerpick *Neck-thru-body *Slide guitar, Slide *Vibrato systems for guitar ("Tremolo arm") *Electronic tuner *Patch cord (Electric, some acoustics)

Guitar amplifiers

Guitar amplifier *Distortion (guitar) *Power attenuator (guitar) *Preamplifier *Stack: A guitar amplification setup consisting of one or more speaker cabinets and a "head" (amplifier), rather than a self-contained unit.

Guitar effects

Effects unit (also known as "Stomp Box") *Compression (electric guitar) *Chorus effect *Delay (audio effect) *Fuzz (electric guitar) *Flange (electric guitar) *Phaser (electric guitar) *Reverb (Reverberation) *Sustain **Infinite guitar *Ebow *Overdrive/distortion terms **Eddie Van Halen brown sound, Brown sound **Crunch (guitar), Crunch **Gain (electronics), Gain **Distortion (guitar) **Overdrive (music) *Clean/Dirty *Wah-wah pedal

Guitar software

*Guitar Pro *G7 (guitar software) *Power Tab *RiffWorks Guitar recording and online collaboration software. Free version. *TuxGuitar Guitar free software. *Games **''Guitar Freaks'' An arcade game featuring playing guitars **''Guitar Hero (series), Guitar Hero'' Like ''Guitar Freaks'', except for home use **''Frets on Fire'' A cross-platform ''Guitar Hero'' clone licensed under GNU GPL. **''Rockband'' A multi-platform game for PlayStation 2, 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii which includes a guitar element similar to that of Guitar Hero/Freaks along with a Karaoke-like vocal element and a drum element.

Guitar use

Guitar music

*Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra *Classical guitar music *Instrumental guitar *Tablature notation ("Tab")

Guitar tunings

See Guitar tunings and List of guitar tunings. *Standard tuning *Alternate tunings **Drop tunings **Open tuning **New standard tuning **Regular tuning ***Major thirds tuning ***All fourths tuning ***All fifths tuning **Repetitive tuning ***English guitar ***Russian guitar

Guitar playing styles

The difference between guitar playing styles and guitar techniques (below) is that a style is a collection of techniques *3rd bridge *Classical guitar techniques *Downstrokes picking *Extended technique *Flamenco *Guitar solo *Guitar showmanship *Jazz guitar *Lead guitar *Prepared guitar *Rhythm guitar *Shred guitar *Slack-key guitar *Slide guitar

Guitar technique

''Main :Guitar performance techniques''

Fretting hand technique

*Damping (music), Dampening *Hammer-on *Pull-off *Guitar chord **Barre chord *String skipping

Bridge (Right) hand techniques

See also the following from List of musical terminology: sul porticello (plucking/strumming near the bridge), sul tasto (plucking/strumming above the fingerboard) *Tapping *Palm mute (known as ''pizzicato'' in Classical guitar terminology)

=Strumming

= *Rasgueado *Strum

=Flat picking (single picking, plectrum picking)

= *Guitar picking **Alternate picking **Sweep picking **Economy picking **Gypsy picking **Hybrid picking **Crosspicking **Downpicking **Flatpicking *Pick slide *Pick tapping

=Finger picking (multiple picking)

= *Apoyando: rest stroke *Chicken picking *Fingerstyle guitar & fingerpicking (including Travis picking) *Pattern picking *Picados *Tirando: free stroke

=Percussive techniques

= *Golpe (guitar technique), Golpe: finger tapping (flamenco) *Tambour (guitar technique), Tambour: string striking *Slapping (music), Slapping: A variety of techniques

Head (Left) hand techniques

*Double stop *Finger vibrato (includes string bending, and bending behind the nut) *Left-hand muting *Slide guitar **Lap slide guitar

=Legato techniques

= *Hammer-on *Legato technique (includes rolls and trills) *Pull-off *Tapping

=Harmonic techniques

= Guitar harmonic *Artificial harmonic *Pinch harmonic *Tap harmonic

Extended techniques

*Prepared guitar

History of guitars

*History of the classical guitar

Guitar makers

List of guitar manufacturers, Guitar manufacturers * Luthier, Luthier (Guitar maker) * John Bailey (luthier), Bailey, John * B.C. Rich, B.C. Rich Guitars * Dana Bourgeois, Bourgeois Guitars * Caparison Guitars * Carvin A&I * Collings Guitars * Cort Guitars * Dean Guitars * Eastwood Guitars * Epiphone Guitars * ESP Guitars * Fender Musical Instruments Corporation * Fernandes Guitars * Flipper's Guitar * Gibson Guitar Corporation * Godin guitars * Gretsch * Heritage Guitars * Hagstrom * Ibanez * Jackson Guitars * James Tyler Guitars * John Bailey (luthier), John Bailey * Kramer Guitars * Kilometer * Linda Manzer * Maton Guitars * Martin Guitars * Music Man (company), MusicMan * Ovation guitar, Ovation Guitar Company * Peavey Guitars * Pensa Custom Guitars * PRS Guitars * Rickenbacker Guitars * Schecter Guitar Research * Takamine Guitars * Taylor Guitars * Valley Arts Guitar * Warwick (bass guitar) * Washburn guitars * Yamaha (manufacturer), Yamaha * Zon guitars

Guitar magazines

* ''Acoustic (magazine), Acoustic'' * ''Acoustic Guitar (magazine), Acoustic Guitar'' * ''Classical Guitar (magazine), Classical Guitar'' * ''Fretboard Journal'' * ''Guitar Aficianado'' * ''Guitar Player'' * ''Guitar World'' * ''Guitarist (magazine), Guitarist'' * ''Premier Guitar'' * ''Soundboard (magazine), Soundboard'' * ''Total Guitar'' * ''Vintage Guitar (magazine), Vintage Guitar'' * ''Young Guitar Magazine''

Guitar music

*List of compositions for guitar

Guitar festivals

*Crossroads Guitar Festival *Darwin International Guitar Festival *Output festival

Guitar community

*Golden Guitar Attraction in Australia

Significant guitarists

*Guitarist *List of guitarists *List of jazz guitarists *List of classical guitarists

Guitar methodologies

*Guitar Craft

References

External links

Instruments In Depth: The Guitar
An online feature from Bloomingdale School of Music (October, 2007)
Guitar physicsInternational Guitar Research Archive
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring many historic guitars from the Museum's collection {{DEFAULTSORT:Guitars Guitars, Outlines of culture and arts Wikipedia outlines Music-related lists