What is the guitar?

What is the guitar?

 

 

What is the guitar?: The guitar is a musical instrument of the family of string instruments. It consists of a wooden box with an acoustic hole at the center of the cap and a pole with a fork or in its rear end where six strings stretched are integrated to produce the sound. The guitar is the most used in the world.
The origin of this popular instrument is not set. It is believed that could come from the "harp", which would have been introduced to Spain after the Christian era in the fourth century. It also defends the theory that derives from "ud Arab", that in the eighth century was introduced into Spain by the Moors. However, the six-string guitar as we know it today, was a modification that made the Spanish Antonio Torres Jurado in the nineteenth century. It is known as classical guitar and which derive all other types of guitars used today, which have almost the same structure. The current guitars are built with virtually the same model of Antonio Torres, with a few variations.
Guitar structure consists basically of a box and a mast. The box is made by the back of her cap is called, call the front soundboard, the soundboard hole called ear or mouth, mouth motif called rosette, the junction of the covers call ring , and the structure in which the strings are called bridge. The mast consists of the neck, which is the structure that connects the mast to the rim of the box in the rear, the pitch, which is the area of ​​the mast from the neck to the end, the dishes, which are thin strips halftones metal marking, the upper pin or bridge that receives the ropes to the area in which headstock call tensioned by means of the pin 6. In the case of the electric guitar, and contains microphones and sound volume controls, instead of an ear or mouth, besides the frets, has placeholders on the fretboard and headstock tip has a mast tensor.
How to play guitar is resting it on your lap, leaving the mast to the left. The strings are from the bottom up, from the acute to the more serious (E, B, G, D, the, my). To play guitar support fingers of the left hand on the strings between the frets. This means that the string is a length necessary to make a sound desired. Once you are positioned fingers on the strings you want to play, with the right hand touching rasgueándolas, punteándolas or arpegiándolas. When a sound is played simultaneously tune called when two or more are issued called arpegia chord and if the chord (touching the strings one by one and the same time) is called harmony.
The types of related guitars are Spanish guitar classical guitar, which can be studio or concert, the latter being the best sound and quality for their timber, construction and dimensions flamenco guitar (an entire musical genre which highlights the great guitarist Paco de Lucia), which is smaller and less resonant acoustic guitar, also known as "electro-acoustic", which is an American version designed by CF Martin with metal strings, largest and most varied designs typical of American folk, and electric guitar, invented in the United States with a variety of sizes, shapes, materials, etc., his sound is generated by an amplification system, and is modified by sophisticated digital effects.
Rolling Stone magazine published a list of the 100 greatest guitarists of history of which the first 10 are Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers band, BB King, Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Also on the list is Kurt Cobain in 12th and Carlos Santana at 15, among many other guitar greats.

What is the guitar? 2012