American musician and inventor Les Paul developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s.įrom "Guitar," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 96 Encyclopedia The sound of its strings is both amplified and manipulated electronically by the performer. The electric guitar, developed for popular music in the United States in the 1930s, usually has a solid, nonresonant body. The strings are usually tuned to the notes of a given chord. The Hawaiian, or steel, guitar is laid across the knees of the player, who stops the metal strings by gliding a metal bar along the neck. The twelve-string guitar has six double courses in standard tuning. Guitars ranging from contrabass to treble, and with varying numbers of strings are played in Spain and Latin America. He, and others like him paved the way for Andres Segovia to emerge and bring the guitar to the immense popularity, and respect it enjoys today. Sor was one of the most prolific composers for, and promoters of, the guitarĪs a "concert" instrument, in the last two hundred years. In theĮarly nineteenth century, Fernando Sor set in motion the quest that continues today, to raise the guitar to the The guitar used be called a tavern instrument one that could not meet the demands of classical music. The old wooden tuning pegs were replaced by a modern machine head. Guitar makers in the 19th century broadened the body, increased the curve of the waist, thinned the belly, and changed the internal bracing. In the mid-18th century the guitar attained its modern form, when the double courses were made single and a sixth string was added above the lower five. The guitar became popular in other European countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, and by the late 17th century a fifth course of strings had been added below the other four. The guitar probably originated in Spain, where by the 16th century it was the counterpart among the middle and lower classes of the aristocracy's vihuela, an instrument of similar shape and ancestry with six double courses.
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In its earliest form it had three double courses (pairs) of strings plus a single string (the highest). Guitar-like instruments have existed since ancient times (see the Guitar Museum), but the first written mention of the guitar proper is from the 14th century. A History of the Guitar Classical Guitar:
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