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The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand.
Northern and central-Indian Hindustani musicians favor the term tanpura (often used within the context of languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Sindhi, Punjabi, etc.), whereas southern and Carnatic musicians normally prefer tambura (for example, in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, or Telugu); tanpuri is a smaller variant of the instrument ...
There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric. An acoustic guitar has a wooden top and a hollow body. An electric guitar may be a solid-body or hollow body instrument, which is made louder by using a pickup and plugging it into a guitar amplifier and speaker. Another type of guitar is the low-pitched bass guitar.
A pickguard (also known as a scratchplate) is a piece of plastic or other (often laminated) material that is placed on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument. The main purpose of the pickguard is to protect the guitar's finish from being scratched by the nails of the picking hand, as it was included on guitars not ...
The body of a classical guitar is a resonating chamber that projects the vibrations of the body through a sound hole, allowing the acoustic guitar to be heard without amplification. The sound hole is normally a single round hole in the top of the guitar (under the strings), though some have different placement, shapes, or numbers of holes.
[40] Robbie Krieger's guitar part on the Doors' 1967 track "The End" was heavily influenced by Indian ragas and features melodic and rhythmic qualities that suggest a sitar or veena. [41] Many pop performances actually involve the electric sitar , [ 42 ] which is a solid-body, guitar-like instrument and quite different from the traditional ...
Instruments with only a lower cutaway are known as "single cutaway" instruments, and guitars with both are called "double cutaway". These terms are sometimes shortened to "single cut" (such as in the model name for a solid-body electric guitar called the "PRS Singlecut", produced by the Paul Reed Smith company) or "double cut".