A Few Questions About the Guitar ?
Okay, easy ones here,
Who invented the guitar ?
What year was the first guitar invented/made ?
A bit more difficult maybe, this is gonna be hard for me to ask because I can’t explain it right, but here goes:
How did he decide when the guitar was in tune ? Like, when it suonded perfect, how did he decide that it sounded good ? And the other tuning like drop D, C, half step down, whole step down, etc.
Where did the scales, octaves, arpeggios, chords, all the rest etc. come from ? How were these made up ?
How did the guitar become "electric" ? What I mean is how did they manage to wire it up and amplify it ?
Who did it ?
When ?
What is the oldest musical instrument as we know today ?
Thank you,
PS I am not new to guitar, I just dont know this
Guitar-like instruments have existed since ancient times, but the first written mention of the guitar proper is from the 14th century. In its earliest form it had three double courses (pairs) of strings plus a single string (the highest). The guitar probably originated in Spain, where by the 16th century it was the counterpart among the middle and lower classes of the aristocracy’s vihuela, an instrument of similar shape and ancestry with six double courses.
The guitar became popular in other European countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, and by the late 17th century a fifth course of strings had been added below the other four.
In the mid-18th century the guitar attained its modern form, when the double courses were made single and a sixth string was added above the lower five. Guitar makers in the 19th century broadened the body, increased the curve of the waist, thinned the belly, and changed the internal bracing. The old wooden tuning pegs were replaced by a modern machine head.
The electric guitar, developed for popular music in the United States in the 1930s, usually has a solid, nonresonant body. The sound of its strings is both amplified and manipulated electronically by the performer. American musician and inventor Les Paul developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s.
In the early 1940s, a California inventor, Leo Fender, made some custom guitars and amplifiers in his radio shop and already was working on an amplifier (with no controls) and a matching lap steel guitar (with tone and volume controls). This was typical of the way the electric guitar was viewed at this time, as a total package, and not as an individual instrument.
With his knowledge of existing technologies, he knew he could improve on the amplified hollow-body instruments — and he did. In 1948 he developed the legendary Telecaster® (originally named the Broadcaster). The Tele®, as it became affectionately called, was the first solid body electric Spanish-style guitar ever to go into commercial production.
make a cup of coffee, sit in an easy chair and read the following
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
oldest instrument?
http://www.shakuhachi.com/CM-Fink-NEANDERTHAL.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitars