| The guitar (violao) is a musical instrument that utilizes | | | | string guitars; Arch-top guitars; Renaissance or |
| strings to produce sound. Usually, guitar is made with | | | | Baroque guitars; Resonator, resophonic or Dobro |
| six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten and twelve string | | | | guitars; Russian guitars; Acoustic bass guitars; Tenor |
| guitars are not rare. | | | | guitars; Harp guitars; Extended range guitars; Guitar |
| Guitar (violao) is considered as an instrument in many | | | | battente. |
| forms of music like blues, country, flamenco, rock and | | | | Electric guitars: Electric guitar bodies are solid, |
| even pop. Acoustically playing, the guitar involves | | | | semi-hollow or hollow. The sound produced is little and |
| production of the tone by vibration of the string and | | | | low without amplification. An amplifier forms an integral |
| modulation by the hollow body. Electronic manipulation | | | | part of electric guitars. Vibrations of steel strings |
| can also be done on the tone using an amplifier. | | | | converted into electric signals by electromagnetic |
| Combinations of various woods, with either nylon or | | | | pick-ups are fed in to an amplifier using a cable or |
| steel strings are used for the construction of guitars. | | | | radio transmitter. The sound is often modified either |
| The person who makes and repairs string instruments | | | | using electronic devices or through distortion of valves |
| like guitar is called a luthier. | | | | naturally. The pick-ups here are of two types: single line |
| History and development of string instruments similar to | | | | or double line, each can be either active or passive. |
| guitar (violao) can be traced back to at least 5,000 | | | | Electric guitar sound is most commonly used in jazz, |
| years. In those days, when synthetic material was not | | | | rock-n-roll and blues style of music. |
| available for making guitars, a guitar was defined as `a | | | | Construction of the guitar (violao) is based on whether |
| long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a | | | | the player is left-handed or right-handed. Usually, |
| flat back instrument, most often with incurved sides`. | | | | players use their dominant hand to pluck the strings. |
| There are two major types of guitars: | | | | For most of the people, it is the right hand. The other |
| Acoustic guitar (violao): A soundboard (present in the | | | | hand of the player is on the frets for depressing and |
| front of the guitar body in the form of a piece of | | | | gripping guitar strings. |
| wood) is used to produce the sound from this kind of | | | | The various major guitar components include: |
| guitars. No external arrangement or device is needed | | | | headstock, nut, fretboard, frets, truss rod, inlays, neck, |
| to produce sound. This makes the acoustic guitar | | | | heel or neck joint, strings, guitar body and pickups. |
| quieter than other commonly found band or orchestra | | | | There are certain accessories that might be helpful |
| instruments and often an external amplifier is used to | | | | while playing a guitar (violao). Accessories like: Plectrum |
| make the guitar sound audible and to match the sound | | | | - also called the guitar pick, is used for picking the |
| of other band instruments. The latest range of acoustic | | | | strings. It is made of a plastic like hard material; Slides - |
| guitars come with a host of pick-ups for amplifying and | | | | used for creating glissando effect in blues and rock |
| modifying the raw guitar sound. | | | | genre of music. Neck of a bottle, knife blade or round |
| Within the acoustic guitar type, the sub-categories | | | | metal bar, any of these can be used as a slide; |
| include: Classical guitars; Flamenco guitars; Steel string | | | | Copatasto - it is used for changing pitch of open |
| guitars (include the flat top or `folk` guitar); Twelve | | | | strings. |