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Friday, January 1, 2010

The World of Guitars

By Jarvis D. Burris

The Guitar stands to be one of the most well liked of musical instruments of the planet. Fundamentally talk about rock 'n roll, the picture of a musician with a guitar would immediately spring into mind. Talk about the blues, and you are in for some truly amazing guitar playing. Even more with flamenco, as well as when talking about classical music and guitars.

Basically, the guitar is one musical instrument used in a wide range of musical genres, from rock and roll, to pop, to blues, to classical, even to fusion and jazz. This versatile nature of guitars has made it one of the most popular of musical instruments in the world. Also, the guitar has somewhat become the most basic of musical instruments where music playing or composing is concerned.

The most common of guitars would be the six string guitar, though there are four string versions, seven string guitars, eight string guitars, ten string guitars and twelve string guitars. There are both electric guitars, as well as acoustic guitars. In modern history, electric guitars are known to have contributed a profound influence on popular culture, being the primary instrument of the rock and roll genre. As primary instruments, guitars are also famous in country music genres, flamenco, blues and with the various forms of pop music.

Basically, the modern guitar owes its origins to similar musical instruments which had been around at least 5000 years back. The Sitara, a musical instrument known to have once been employed in traditional India and Central Far East, stands to be the first guitar that the modern guitar springs from. The guitar name comes from the Spanish guitar, which derives from cithara a Latin word which was in taken from the Greek word kathara.

The present day guitar is largely from the Roman cithara, that the Romans brought to Hispania in about forty AD. By around 1200 AD, the guitar morisca, or the Moorish Guitar, which is largely a 4 string guitar and has many sound holes, and the Guitarra Latina, or Latin Guitar, which fundamentally is like the modern guitar, that has a narrow neck and only 1 sound hole, became the 2 standards kinds of guitar evolutions.

Today, the guitar stands to be one of the most definitive of musical instruments, acoustic or electrical. Iconic guitarists like Jimmy Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Victor Wooten, are known to have brought guitars to higher levels of music, higher to other horizons of music genres, defining them as simply awesome musical instruments.

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