MI: LIBRARY: INSTRUMENTS: STRINGS: ACOUSTIC GUITARS

History
Today, guitars and their relatives are incredibly popular around the world. Acoustic guitars today take on many different types of music. Aside from being wonderful soloists, they also make wonderful accompaniments to the voice or other instruments.

Perhaps one of the most common acoustic guitar is the classical guitar. The classical guitar’s ancestor was the gittern from medieval times. Around the 1400’s, the gittern developed into an instrument which resembled a downsized version of the modern classical guitar,. This instrument first appeared in Spain and Italy. The classical guitar has changed very little since.

Description
The acoustic, or classical, guitar, a string instrument, is a very light-weight and non-electric guitar that will perform a range of music from Spanish folk music, to orchestral concertos. It is a handsome instrument made of wood with nylon strings. It’s wide capabilities have even made it one of the most important instruments in Flamenco, the folk music of Spain.

Acoustic Guitar Variations
Steel-string guitar: This instrument was developed around the 19th century. To the classical guitar, it’s only large differences are it’s steel strings, and a sometimes slightly larger body. Together, the steel-string guitar, and the electric guitar have been important voices in pop music. The steel-string guitar is even credited with having made the guitar popular in the US.

Resonator guitar: This guitar is an acoustic guitar with aluminum plates in its body. These plates help boost the sound making it playable at a concert without an amplifier. It came out of the mid-west and west-coast during the 20’s and 30’s.

Twelve-string guitar: This acoustic guitar features twice as many strings as a regular acoustic. Aside from making it a louder instrument, it gives the musician two strings for each pitch. With the twelve strings, the guitar sounds almost as though two musicians are performing at once.

Torres guitar: Torres guitars are considered the “forerunners” of the modern accoustic guitar. They have a slightly-larger body, and aside from that are very similar to a classical guitar.

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thank you soo much for taking the time to write up the history of acoustic guitars. my b/f has played an acoustic for 5 years and i wanted to learn more about them. you have been soooo helpful to me!!!!!!! now we have something more to talk about!!!!! my sincerest gratitude,

Evy

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