Friday, July 22
GUITAR
Interesting Facts about the Guitar:
- The ancestors of the modern guitar can be traced back to the stringed instruments played across Central Asia and India, in ancient times.
- The oldest iconographic representation of the guitar is a 3,000 year old carving of a Hittite or ancient Anatolian bard playing the instrument.
- The modern guitar is believed to have descended from the cithara brought to Hispania by the Romans, in 40 AD.
- The various references to the guitar in ancient times included guitarra, gitarre, guitare, qitara, cithara, kithara and sihtar.
- Traditionally, guitars were constructed with combinations of various woods. The strings were made of animal gut.
- The musical instrument has a mention in records maintained by the Moors, Viking incursions and in traditional Norse carvings.
- Dimension standards of the modern guitar were established by Antonio Torres Jurado, between 1817 and 1892.
- Headstock, at the end of the guitar neck.
- Neck, comprising frets, tuners, fretboard, headstock and truss rod.
- Nut, a small strip of any hard material at the headstock-fretboard juncture.
- Fretboard or fingerboard.
- Frets, metal strips embedded on the fretboard.
- Truss rod, a metal rod along the inside of the neck.
- Strings made from metal or polymer materials.
- Inlays, visual elements along the exterior surface.
- Capotasto, to open up string pitch.
- Slides, to generate the glissando effect.
- Plectrum, to 'pick' the strings.
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