Outline of guitars
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars:
Guitar – plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern guitars are made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric.
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Contents
- 1 What type of thing is a guitar?
- 2 Types and varieties of guitars
- 3 Models
- 4 Parts of a guitar
- 5 Guitar accessories
- 6 Guitar use
- 7 History of guitars
- 8 Guitar makers
- 9 Guitar music
- 10 Guitar community
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
What type of thing is a guitar?
A guitar can be described as all of the following:
Types and varieties of guitars
Standard guitar variations
- Archtop guitar
- Flat top guitar
- Classical guitar
- Parlor guitar
- Fretless guitar
- Flamenco guitar
- Resonator guitar
- Tailed bridge guitar
- Selmer guitar (Maccaferri)
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- Acoustic-electric guitar
- Semi-acoustic guitar
- Hybrid guitar
- Silent guitar
- Electric guitar
Pitch-based variations
- Alto guitar
- Baritone guitar
- Bass guitars
- Niibori guitars
- Octave guitar
- Requinto
- Tenor guitar
- Terz guitar
Steel guitars
- Lap steel guitar (aka Hawaiian guitar)
- Pedal steel guitar
Courses
- Single course
- Double course (e.g., 12-string guitar)
- Triple course (e.g. Tiple Colombiano)
- Four or more strings per course (e.g. Guitarron Chileno)
Extra strings
- Seven-string guitar - The Russian Guitar and Electric guitar
- Eight-string guitar
- Nine-string guitar
- 10-string guitar
- 11-string guitar
- Twelve string guitar
- 13-string guitar
- Extended-range bass - Covers bass guitars with 5 or more strings.
Fewer Strings
Misc
- Harp guitar
- Gittler guitar
- Glock-Guitar
- Lyre-guitar
- Nano guitar
- Portuguese guitar
- Prepared guitar
- Vintage guitar
Models
6-String Guitars
Acoustic guitar models
Semi-acoustic models
- Gibson ES-335
- Rickenbacker 360 (Both 12-string and 6-string models)
- Gretsch White Falcon
Solid body electric models
- Fender Stratocaster
- Fender Telecaster
- Gibson Les Paul
- Gibson SG
- Gibson Flying V
- Superstrat
- Steinberger
Basses
Parts of a guitar
- Headstock (peghead, head)
- Nut (instrumental)
- Machine heads (tuners)
- Frets
- Fretboard (fingerboard)
- Truss rod
- Inlay (guitar)
- Neck (music)
- Neck joint: see Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck and Neck-thru
- Pickup (music technology) (Electric – Single coil (including P-90), Humbucker) (Acoustic – Piezoelectric)
- Wiring and electronics
- Bridge (instrument)
- Pickguard
- Body: The solid body of an electric and the sounding box of an acoustic
- Sound board (music) (Acoustic)
- Strings (music)
Guitar accessories
Misc
- Capo
- Guitar pick
- Neck-thru-body
- Slide
- Vibrato systems for guitar ("Tremolo arm")
- Electronic tuner
- Cable (Electric, some Acoustics)
Guitar amplifiers
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- Distortion (guitar)
- Power attenuator (guitar)
- Preamplifier
- Stack: A guitar amplification setup consisting of one or more speaker cabinets and a "head" (amplifier), rather than a self-contained unit.
Guitar effects
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(also known as "Stomp Box")
- Compression (electric guitar)
- Chorus effect
- Delay (audio effect)
- Fuzz (electric guitar)
- Flange (electric guitar)
- Phaser (electric guitar)
- Reverb (Reverberation)
- Sustain
- Ebow
- Overdrive/distortion terms
- Clean/Dirty
- Wah-wah pedal
Guitar software
- Amplitube (guitar software)
- Guitar Pro
- G7 (guitar software)
- Power Tab
- RiffWorks Guitar recording and online collaboration software. Free version.
- TuxGuitar Guitar free software.
- Games
- Guitar Freaks An arcade game featuring playing guitars
- Guitar Hero Like Guitar Freaks, except for home use
- Frets on Fire A cross-platform Guitar Hero clone licensed under GNU GPL.
- RiffWorks – Guitar Recording Software, Online Collaboration, and Podcasting
- Rockband A muilti-platform game for PlayStation 2, 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii which includes a guitar element similar to that of Guitar Hero/Freaks along with a Karaoke-like vocal element and a drum element.
Guitar use
Guitar music
- Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
- Classical guitar music
- Instrumental guitar
- Tablature notation ("Tab")
Guitar tunings
See Guitar tunings and List of guitar tunings.
Guitar playing styles
The difference between guitar playing styles and guitar techniques (below) is that a style is a collection of techniques
- 3rd bridge
- Classical guitar techniques
- Downstrokes picking
- Extended technique
- Flamenco
- Guitar solo
- Guitar showmanship
- Jazz guitar
- Lead guitar
- Prepared guitar
- Rhythm guitar
- Shred guitar
- Slack-key guitar
- Slide guitar
Guitar technique
Main Category: Category:Guitar performance techniques
Fretting hand technique
Bridge (Right) hand techniques
See also the following from List of musical terminology: sul porticello (plucking/strumming near the bridge), sul tasto (plucking/strumming above the fingerboard)
Strumming
Flat picking (single picking, plectrum picking)
Finger picking (multiple picking)
- Apoyando: rest stroke
- Chicken picking
- Fingerstyle guitar & fingerpicking (including Travis picking)
- Pattern picking
- Picados
- Tirando: free stroke
Percussive techniques
Head (Left) hand techniques
- Double stop
- Finger vibrato (includes string-bending, and bending behind the nut)
- Left-hand muting
- Slide guitar
Legato techniques
Harmonic techniques
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Extended techniques
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History of guitars
Guitar makers
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- Luthier (Guitar maker)
- Bailey, John
- B.C. Rich Guitars
- Bourgeois Guitars
- Caparison Guitars
- Carvin A&I
- Collings Guitars
- Cort Guitars
- Dean Guitars
- Epiphone Guitars
- ESP Guitars
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
- Fernandes Guitars
- Flipper's Guitar
- Gibson Guitar Corporation
- Godin guitars
- Gretch guitars
- Heritage Guitars
- Hagstrom
- Ibanez
- Ideal Guitars
- Jackson Guitars
- James Tyler Guitars
- John Bailey
- Kramer Guitars
- Kilometer
- Maton Guitars
- Martin Guitars
- MusicMan
- Ovation Guitar Company
- Peavey Guitars
- Pensa Custom Guitars
- Pimentel & Sons
- PRS Guitars
- Rickenbacker Guitars
- Rodriguez & Sons
- Schecter Guitar Research
- Takamine Guitars
- Taylor Guitars
- Valley Arts Guitar
- Warwick (bass guitar)
- Washburn guitars
- Yamaha (manufacturer)
- Zon guitars
Guitar music
Guitar community
- Golden Guitar Attraction in Australia
Guitar magazines, web-sites and other media
- Guitar Player
- Guitar World
- Total Guitar
- Ultimate-Guitar
- Young Guitar Magazine
- Guitarist
- Vintage Guitar (magazine)
- Guitar Kit Builder
- Classical Guitar Links
- Guitar Chords 247
Guitar festivals
Significant guitarists
Guitar methodologies
Slang and other terms
- Axe – A Guitar (also slang for a saxophone, trumpet and other instruments)
- Fret buzz
- Guitar battle or guitar duel
- Jam (music) – Playing with other people
See also
References
External links
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- Instruments In Depth: The Guitar An online feature from Bloomingdale School of Music (October, 2007)
- Stalking the Oldest Six-String Guitar
- Guitar physics
- International Guitar Research Archive
- The Guitar, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring many historic guitars from the Museum's collection
