variation of many kinds of guitar

1. CLASSIFICATIONof GUITAR

2. Vihuela
The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument,
shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability)
but tuned like It was used in 15th- and 16th-centuryas the equivalent of
the lute in and has a large resultant repertory. There were usually five or
six doubled strings.

3. Gittern
The gittern was a relatively small gut strung
round-backed instrument that first appears in
literature and pictorial representation during
the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian
Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually
depicted played with a quill plectrum, as we can
see clearly beginning in manuscript illuminations
from the thirteenth century. It was also called
the guiterna in Spain, guiterne or guiterre in
France, the chitarra in Italy and quintern in
Germany. A popular instrument with court
musicians, minstrels, and amateurs, the gittern
is considered an ancestor of the modern guitar
and other instruments like
the mandore bandurria and gallichon

4. Baroque guitar
The Baroque guitar replaced
the Renaissance lute as the most common
instrument found in the home. The earliest
attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from
the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish
book Declaracion de Instrumentos
Musicales by Juan Bermudo, published in
1555. The first treatise published for the Baroque
guitar was Guitarra Española de cinco
ordenes (The Five-course Spanish Guitar), c.
1590, by Juan Carlos Amat.[

5. Romantic guitar
The early romantic guitar, the guitar of
the Classical and Romantic period, shows
remarkable consistency from 1790 to 1830 Guitars
had six or more single courses of strings while
the Barogu guitar usually had five double courses
(though the highest string might be single). The
romantic guitar eventually led to Antonio de Torres
Jurado fan-braced Spanish guitars, the immediate
precursors of the modern classical guitar.

6. Classical guitar
The classical guitar (also known as
the classic guitar,] nylon-string
guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of
the guitar family used in classical music.
An acoustic wooden string instrument
with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a
precursor of the
modern acoustic and electric guitars,
both of which use metal strings.
Classical guitars are derived from the
Spanish vihuela and gittern in the
fifteenth and sixteenth century, which
later evolved into the seventeenth and
eighteenth century Baroque guitar and
later the modern classical guitar in the
mid nineteenth century

7. Flamencoguitar
Traditionally, luthiers made guitars to sell at a wide
ranges of prices, largely based on the materials
used and the amount of decorations, to cater to the
popularity of the instrument across all classes of
people in Spain. The cheapest guitars were often
simple, basic instruments made from the less
expensive woods such as cypress. Antonio de
Torres one of the most renowned luthiers, did not
differentiate between flamenco and classical
guitars. Only after Andrés Segovia and others
popularized classical guitar music, did this
distinction emerge.

8. Contraguitar
 The contraguitar or Schrammel
guitar is a type of guitar developed
in Vienna in the mid-nineteenth
century. In addition to the usual
guitar neck with six strings and a
fretboard, it has a second, fretless
neck with up to nine bass strings.
Customarily these additional
strings are tuned from E-flat
downwards. The lowest string on
the 15-string contraguitar is usually
tuned to G.

9. Heavy metal guitar
. Heavy metal guitar (or simply metal guitar) is the use of
highly-amplified electric guitar in heavy metal Heavy metal
guitar playing is rooted in the guitar playing styles developed
in 1960s-era blues rock and psychedelic rock and it uses a
massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion
extended guitar solos and overall loudness. The electric
guitar and the sonic power that it projects through
amplification has historically been the key element in heavy
metal.[3] The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a
combined use of high volumes and heavy distortion

10. Bass guitar
 The bass guitar, electric bass, or simply bass,
is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar
family. It is a plucked string instrument
similar in appearance and construction to an
electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a
longer neck and scale length, and typically
four to six strings or courses. Since the mid-
1950s, the bass guitar has largely replaced
the double bass in popular music.