This document provides a history of guitars and describes different types of guitars. It begins by mentioning early string instruments like bowl harps and tanburs. Then it discusses the development of guitars from instruments like lutes and guitarra morescas. It proceeds to define classical guitars, which have nylon strings and are played with fingernails. Finally, it briefly outlines 12-string guitars, which have an extra set of strings.

1. History on Guitars
Hannah Matthews

2. Instruments known to archaeologists
are bowl harps and tanburs
The Guitars Ancestors

3. A long, fretted neck, flat wooden
soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often
with incurved sides
What s a Guitar?

4. ● Guitarra Moresca
● Lute
● Classical Guitar
● Twelve String Guitar
Different Types of Guitars
Twelve
String
Guitar
Guitarra
Moresca
LuteClassical
Guitar

5. ● The lute can be referred
to any String Instrument
having the strings
running in a plane
parallel to the sound
table.
● The Lute’s History dates
back to the Arab Oud
Lute

6. ● This Guitar has a Oval Shape structure
and was made in the 14th Century
● It is close to a Lute but is also between the
Medieval Latin Guitar
Guitarra Moresca
+ =
Medieval Latin Guitar Lute Guitarra Moresca

7. It Is an acoustic wooden guitar with six classical guitar strings as opposed
to the metal strings used in acoustic and electric guitars.
The phrase "Classical Guitar" can refer to two other concepts:
● The instrumental finger technique common to classical guitar—
individual strings plucked with the fingernails or, rarely, fingertips
● The instrument's classical music repertoire
Classical Guitar

8. The twelve-string
guitar is a steel-string
guitar with twelve
strings in six courses.
Twelve String Guitar
Twelve-string guitars
are made in both
acoustic and electric
forms. However, it is
the acoustic type that
is most common

9. ● http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/
BriefHistory.html
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
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