THE GUITARMUSIC PROJECT2º HOOKE

THE GUITAR

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. TYPES OF GUITAR

BIOGRAPHY• The origins and evolution of the guitar are unclear, since many

similar instruments were used in ancient times, so it is usual to follow the path of this instrument through pictorial and sculptural representations found throughout history. There is archaeological evidence found in carvings in Alaca Huyuk (north of Turkey) that around 1000 BC. Hittites and Assyrians created stringed instruments like the lyre, the instrument of many strings simplest and oldest in the world, but with the addition of a sounding board, so it would be ancestors of the guitar.

• There are two hypotheses about its origins. One source gives a Greco-Roman and claimed to be a descendant of the fidícula and the other believes that the guitar is an instrument introduced by the Arabs during the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula and later evolved in Spain.

• ACOUSTIC GUITARS

• RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE GUTAR

• CLASSICAL GUITARS

• EXTENDED-RANGE CLASSICAL GUITARS

• FLAMENCO GUITAR

• FLAT-TOP GUITARS

• ARCHTOP GUITARS

• RUSSIAN GUITARS

• GUITARRÓN

• HARP GUITARS

• EXTENDED-RANGE GUITARS

• GUITAR BATTENTE

• ELECTRIC GUITARS

• SELMER-MACCAFERRI GUITARS

• RESONATOR, RESOPHONIC OR DOBRO GUITARS

• TWELVE-STRING GUITARS

• ACOUSTIC BASS GUITARS

• TENOR GUITARS