Guitar

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The guitar is one of the most used instruments in the world. It exist thousands of years. The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3,300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard. It is used in many different genres of music, from Folk to Classical and from Jazz to Rock-N-Roll.The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. It consists of a body which forms a soundboard and a long fretted neck. There are six string stretched over the neck and soundboard. They can be steel or nylon. Traditionally, the guitar strings were made by animal guts.

The classical guitar uses nylon strings. The player pick the strings with his/her fingers. The classical guitar develops from the Renaissance and Baroque guitar. A characteristic of the classical guitar is it broad neck. The classical guitar's wide, flat neck allows the musician to play scales, arpeggios, and certain chord forms more easily and with less adjacent string interference than on other styles of guitar.

Renaissance and Baroque guitars (lutesandguitars.co.uk)A Classical Guitar

The classical guitar is used as an solo instrument. It is also used in a guitar duet, guitar trio or a guitar quartet, or to accompany other instruments or voice.

Here are some examples of Classical Guitar Music.

1. Spanish Ballad/ Romance D'Amor/ Jeux Interdits (Spanish Traditional Music - Anonymous)



2. Natalia (by Georges Moustaki)



3. Feste Lariane (by Luigi Mozziani)