![]() Street corner guitarists led anti-war protest movements while angry youths fighting against the status quo took up guitars to fuel their punk instincts. Inventors and designers like George Beauchamp, Guy Hart, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Ted McCarty, and Paul Bigsby came up with new innovations and body shapes from the 1930s to the 1950s that also changed the shape of music.īy the 1960s, the guitar had evolved to become something every bit as important to social change as newspaper editorials and politicians’ speeches. Wide-scale production of the electric guitar started in the 1950s and has continued unceasingly to the present. Since then, the development of the guitar has been all about making guitars louder-and more beautiful. They began using electricity in the 1930s to amplify the guitars. luthiers, and musicians attempted to make guitars louder for band members who couldn’t hear their guitars above drummers and horn players. The traveling guitar gave rise in the early 1900s to the blues in the Deep South and country western music in the expanding U.S. ![]() The guitar was the first multi-faceted instrument that allowed singers and performers to accompany themselves, and it was easy to travel with. This included making the bodies bigger to project more sound. European luthiers who emigrated to the United States in the 1800s changed the guitar’s structure to make it louder and sturdier. It was short-lived and gave way to the instrument that had been known by a variety of names, including kithara (Greek), cithara (Latin), qitar (Arabic), gittern (English), gitarre (German), guitare (French), chitarra (Italian), and guitarra (Spanish). The first instrument to feature incurved sides, the hourglass shape, was the vihuela. From bowls to flat surfaces to slightly curved lines, guitar makers experimented with hundreds of different shapes looking for the perfect blend of beauty, physics, and sound. The guitar evolved from European and Asian instruments during the Middle Ages (primarily the oud and lute). Eventually, gourds gave way to carved wooden bowls, and sticks became wide wooden necks with many strings, and the instruments we know today began to take shape. There was no point at which the two types were joined together, but over thousands of years instrument makers combined the best of both worlds to create instruments that were right for their time. Today’s stringed instruments are descended from one or both of these instruments. But because they were strung across open space, there was no place to press down on the strings and change their notes. On the other hand, the lyre had four or more strings, allowing for a combination of notes that could be plucked or strummed as chords and their large bowls produced a vibrant sound. And their small gourds produced a thin sound. But the width of the stick-like necks limited the number of strings sometimes only a single string and rarely more than three or four. ![]() Instruments with necks allowed musicians to create different notes by pressing the strings down at different points on the neck. The difference between the two is significant. Small gourds were attached to the sticks to increase the volume and improve the sound. The second type was a stick to which a few strings were attached at the top and bottom. The first were harp-like instruments such as the lyre where many strings were tied over an open space like a gourd bowl or a tortoise shell, or strung from a bowl up to a crossbar. The origin of these instruments goes back to at least 3000 BC, the beginning of recorded history. Guitars and other modern stringed instruments evolved from two ancient types of musical instruments. Medieval To Metal: The Art & Evolution of The GUITAR ![]()
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