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The popularity of these guitars peaked from the late 19th century until the 1950s. Many blues and folk musicians have used smaller-bodied guitars, which were often more affordable, mass production models. Parlor guitar has also come to denote a style of American guitar music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. [2]
Common guitar body shapes: A–Range, B–Parlor, C–Grand Concert, D–Auditorium, E–Dreadnought, F–Jumbo. Common body shapes for modern acoustic guitars, from smallest to largest: Range – The smallest common body shape, sometimes called a mini jumbo, is three-quarters the size of a jumbo-shaped guitar. A range shape typically has a ...
Companion: A travel/parlor guitar with a 13.5 inch lower bout, 14 frets to the body, a 23.5 inch scale length, and a body depth of 3.25–4.00 inches. Introduced in 2020. [17] Concertina: A small-bodied guitar with a 14.75 inch lower bout, 12 frets to the body, a 25-inch scale length, and a body depth of 3.25–4.00 inches. Introduced in 2018 ...
Many of the earliest parlour songs were transcriptions for voice and keyboard of other music. Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, for instance, were traditional (or "folk") tunes supplied with new lyrics by Moore, and many arias from Italian operas, particularly those of Bellini and Donizetti, became parlour songs, with texts either translated or replaced by new lyrics.
The first modern Washburn instruments were full-size acoustic guitars imported from Japan by Beckmen Music. The 1974 range included one folk-style guitar (W-200) and eight dreadnoughts of increasing quality and decoration: W-240-12, W-250, W-260, W-280, W-300, W-300-12, W-500, W-600.
"Parlor organ" is a good example of similar coinage: there were big organs, and then there were smaller organs that were appropriate for a parlor, so the term started being used. Calling a guitar an "acoustic guitar" wasn't necessary until electric guitars were invented, so old catalogs will of course not refer to "acoustic guitars".
Jean Larrivée Guitars Inc. is a Canadian company that manufactures electric and acoustic guitars. Founded in 1967 by Jean Larrivée, the company moved from Toronto, Ontario, to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1977, and to Vancouver in 1982. A second plant opened in California in September 2001. Canadian manufacturing was closed in 2013.
The "plectrum guitar" is a four-stringed guitar with a scale length of 26 to 27 inches (66 to 69 cm) and tunings usually based on the plectrum banjo, C 3 −G 3 −B 3 −D 4 or D 3 −G 3 −B 3 −D 4. They are also commonly tuned like a mandocello, C 2 −G 2 −D 3 −A 3, one octave down from the tenor guitar, much as the relationship ...