An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument that produces sound through strings’ vibration. At different frequencies strings vibrate creating harmonic tunes. The strings mass, length and tension determine the frequency produced. The guitar is very popular in music today and a useful part of classical, reggae, blues and other genres.
The guitar ancestry draws back to Arab countries, where an instrument with many strings and a gourd sized body was brought from Spain. It was called an alu’de. This instrument and the word evolved into lute. By 16th century lute became a common accessory in music with pieces written explicitly for it. Though it was portable and light it failed to produce enough sound and less in a harmonic way. In this period, …show more content…
In 1911, Gibson started an in-house publishing that put out magazines like ‘The Sound Board Salesman’ as well as music sheets. He collected a lot of data from 1929-1961, the brands included: Kalamazoo, Kelly kroydon, Cromw`ell and masterstone. The move made the establishment of the guitar very popular among the traditional folks of Italy, Portugal and Spain. Sailors from Europe took the instrument all the way to Hawaii, where natives embraced it. Legend has it that in the 1980’s at Kamehameha School in Hawaii a music student, on his way home with a guitar found a metal bar by the railroad track. He experimented sliding the metal bar up and down the strings and there was a remarkable harmonic sound produced. This gave birth to the Hawaiian guitar.
Due to harsh climatic and social condition in America the European guitar did not fare well since it was lightly constructed. Natives and immigrants developed an X bracing to reinforce the soundboard making the construction much easier. The resultant was definitely the American guitar which was easily built in factories at a much cheaper price. The guitar gradually became a folk instrument introduced by German settlers in their tradition ballads. The appearance of the guitar came from three distinguished regions: the Spanish southwest, the eastern city and from black blue
The guitar ancestry draws back to Arab countries, where an instrument with many strings and a gourd sized body was brought from Spain. It was called an alu’de. This instrument and the word evolved into lute. By 16th century lute became a common accessory in music with pieces written explicitly for it. Though it was portable and light it failed to produce enough sound and less in a harmonic way. In this period, …show more content…
In 1911, Gibson started an in-house publishing that put out magazines like ‘The Sound Board Salesman’ as well as music sheets. He collected a lot of data from 1929-1961, the brands included: Kalamazoo, Kelly kroydon, Cromw`ell and masterstone. The move made the establishment of the guitar very popular among the traditional folks of Italy, Portugal and Spain. Sailors from Europe took the instrument all the way to Hawaii, where natives embraced it. Legend has it that in the 1980’s at Kamehameha School in Hawaii a music student, on his way home with a guitar found a metal bar by the railroad track. He experimented sliding the metal bar up and down the strings and there was a remarkable harmonic sound produced. This gave birth to the Hawaiian guitar.
Due to harsh climatic and social condition in America the European guitar did not fare well since it was lightly constructed. Natives and immigrants developed an X bracing to reinforce the soundboard making the construction much easier. The resultant was definitely the American guitar which was easily built in factories at a much cheaper price. The guitar gradually became a folk instrument introduced by German settlers in their tradition ballads. The appearance of the guitar came from three distinguished regions: the Spanish southwest, the eastern city and from black blue