Guitar's Biography

Guitar is a very popular musical instrument. A guitar is a instrument having a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs,most often within curved side sand and a flat back. The neck is fretted.

"Gutiar" the English word is came from the Spanish " gutarra". 'Gutarra' comes from Andalusian Arabic
 'qitara'. This came from Latin 'cithara' , which in turn came from Greek 'kithara' and this came from Ancient Persian 'sihtara'.
 A painter, Johannes Vermeer created a paint named                  
" Young woman playing a guitar" in 1672.

                                    
The earliest form of guitar was created in 1779,
by a man of Neapolitan decent,
whose name was Gaetano Vinaccia (from Vinaccia family).
Basically the first stage of play, this guitar was a mandolin.
In 1850, a man from Spain, named Antonio Torres Jurado, added his new attachments to the instrument. That helped the instrument to differentiate itself  from the name " mandolin" to known as a guitar. The guitar was first noted as being its own instrument in Spain as the Spanish culture and its musical endeavors.


1779's Neapolitan Mandolin                                                         





Antonio De Torres guitar : (1855-1899)

















Gibson Mandolin and others (about 1900-1949)  




Romero Solid body( very rare and have a historical importance) and others:( about 1950- 1980)
  
After that till now:
And after that,till now so many kind of guitars are made by different authorities.Some of them are here:















There was something about guitars,the most popular instrument of our times.


No comments:

Post a Comment