GUITAR

GUITAR 

                      

Guitar is a stringed musical instrument played by plucked,generally using fingers or a plectrum.The guitar is formed on a part of the body subject to the neck is solid as a string which generally consist of six approximated .The guitar is traditionally formed from various types of wood with strings made of nylon or steel.Some modern guitars are made of polycarbonate material.

In general,the guitar is divided into 2 types : 

Acoustic guitar

                                       

with part of his body cavities (hollow body),has been used for thousands of years.There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar : nylon-string acoustic guitar,the steel-string acoustic guitar and the archtop guitar.Classical guitar generally played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerpicking technique.

Electric guitar

introduced in 1930,relies on the electronic amplifier capable of manipulating the sound of the guitar.At the beginning of the user,using the electric guitar hollow body (hollow body),but then the use of solid bodies (solid body) is considered more appropriate.Wide famous electric guitar as the main instrument in various music genres such as blues,country,reggae,jazz,metal,rock and various forms of pop music.

History of guitar

The word 'guitar' or guitar in English, originally taken from the name of an ancient stringed instrument in the Persian region in about 1500 BC,known as citar or sehtar.This instrument is then developed into a variety of models of ancient guitar known as a generic term tanbur.In 300 BC the Persian tanbur developed by the Greeks and six centuries later by the Romans (Bellow, 1970: 54-55).476M In this instrument brought by the Romans to Spain and transformed into:

(1) guitarra Morisca melody that serves as a carrier

(2) Guitarra Latina to play a chord.three centuries later the Arabs brought a kind of guitar stringed instrument, as al ud to Spain (Summerfield, 1982: 12).

Based construction ud al Arab and the second model of the guitar from the Roman,the Spanish and then make his own musical instrument called the vihuela.As a result,vihuela became popular in Spain while the instruments predecessor gradually abandoned.Nevertheless al ud brought people to the countries of Western Europe and rival the popularity of the vihuela in Spain.In Europe al ud greeted well and develop into various models of European lute until approximately the end of the 17th century.Meanwhile vihuela evolving into a wide variety of guitar for centuries until it became a classical guitar used at this time.

Guitar authenticity can not be seen from antiquity.Some experts feel this tool comes from the African continent,where many modern replicas in the form of a round box as shells with Gut / silk yarn,in many regions of the continent.Other experts find this tool in the form of glass in an old stone relief relief in the days of Ancient Central Asia and Asia.Materials other thoughts also arise with the discovery of ancient Greek vases patterned vase.Greek Strings is the first tool may be categorized as a guitar.Modern guitar possibility stems from the Spanish guitar,but different types of guitar-like instrument instrument that we can see dilukisan painting in Medieval times and Renaiassance that is widely available throughout Europe.

the types of guitars

Acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar has a hollow body portion (hollow body) and can produce relatively loud sound without reinforcement electrically.The sound of the acoustic guitar is generated from the vibration of the strings that flows between the neck vertebrae (nut) with a bridge (brigde) which is then amplified by the guitar body part that acts as the hole resonance.

Resonance hole generally in the form of a circle located in the center of the guitar body.But according to the times and aesthetic demands of the resonance hole not only circular,but can also be calligraphy as introduced by CC Guitar with Calligraphy Series which took the kanji characters (China, Japan).

There are several subcategories of grouping acoustic guitar, among them:

1.Nylon-stringed guitars, including classical guitar and flamenco guitar
2.Steel-stringed guitar, including peak-flat guitar and folk guitar
3.archtop guitars
4.Twelve-string guitar

Grouping also incorporate acoustic guitar acoustic guitar which has a range of different tone levels,such as acoustic bass guitar tuner that has the same electric bass guitar.

Electric guitar

Electric guitar is a guitar that is designed so that the sound generated can be amplified electrically and,if played without the reinforcement will produce a sound that is relatively weak.The main components of the electric guitar is the pickups.Electromagnetic pick up catch and change the vibration of the strings into the shape of the signal,which is then forwarded to melelui medium loudspeaker cable or radio waves.The resulting sound is often manipulated in such a way as to use additional electronic equipment as well as the natural distortion of the vacuum tube inside the loudspeakers.There are two types of magnetic pickups,the single coil pickup (single coil) and double coil pickups (double coil or humbucker),where each pickup can be set active or passive.Pickup first successfully used on the guitar developed by George Beauchamp in 1931,diamana that time he was still using a hollow body guitar (hollow-body).After World War II,then the solid-body electric guitar (solid-body) popularized by Gibson in collaboration with Les Paul and Leo Fender working independently.

Several models of electric guitars using a piezoelectric pickup,which serves as a transducer to produce sound that is relatively similar to the acoustic guitar.There is also a guitar that combines magnetic pickups and piezoelectric pickups are called hybrid guitars.

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