Guitar Gyaan

For all you guitar enthusiasts, here’s a little gyaan on the history of the beautiful instrument… Although its not necessary to know the history to fall in love with an instrument.. I just thought I'd share it with you.The guitar, in its earliest form had 3 pairs of strings and one single highest string. It is believed to have its origins in Spain. Another guitar like instrument called the Lute was more popular during the renaissance period. By the 17th century, .i.e. the Baroque period, a fifth course of strings was added to the guitar. A course is a pair of strings. Listen to Lute (You will need Real Player to listen and view the videos)

The guitar was never a popular instrument with the musicians as it could not handle complicated music. Towards the end of the Baroque period, the pairs of strings were replaced by six single strings. This is the modern guitar as we know it. Many musicians starting writing music for guitars. Concerts were popular. Guitar was finally given the respect that it deserved.

Fernando Sor was one of the prominent musicians to play and write for guitar as a solo concert instrument. Today we have guitars ranging from contrabass (Bass guitars) to treble (Lead, electric, acoustic etc.) also varying in the number of strings. We still do have six course guitars you know.. And of course there were a few companies that took guitar manufacturing to whole new level.. Like Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Fender, Gibson to name the ultimate few…

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