The famous guitar originated from the lute family. Guitar-like
instruments have existed for many years. The first written mention of it was in the
14th century. There are three types of guitars classical, steel, and electric. Those
were today's essential 
categories of the
modern guitar.
The electric guitar developed for popular
music in the United States in the 1930s, usually is a solid, non-resonant body. The
sound of the electric guitar's strings is both amplified and manipulated can be
found in many parts of the world as far back aselectronically by
the performer. Realtives of the guitar can be found in many parts of the world as far back
as 2000 B.C. American musician and inventor, Les Paul developed prototypes for the
solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s.
