History of Guitar

Many people who can play the guitar, but few know its history. Here we will see a glimpse of the history of the guitar from time to time. Actually, the history of the guitar very long, but given the limited space, this discourse will review an outline only.

First of all: From Babylon to Six Strings

Unbelievable guitar history began in the Near East. Among the debris found in Babylon, the most relevant is the guitar made in 1900-1800 BC. From that time until 1650, guitars have evolved such complex and diverse. So many types and each one has a different name.
Some have found other things, consider the guitar actually comes from the Spanish guitar as a musical instrument similar to a Spanish musical instrument called Vihuela outstanding at the beginning of the 16th century. This new guitar or instrument, first created the actual size is very small and only has four strings, like the ukulele.
In the classical period many publications are made by the creator of the song as well as the musicians. Such as Fernando Sor, Mauro Guiliani, Matteo Carcassi, Fernando Caulli, and many of the creators who grow the method of playing the guitar that ended up being a game that common and acceptable.
The instruments are important contributions to the development of the guitar is the instrument Cittern. This instrument resembles a pear-shaped with a flat rear, with four or five pairs of strings of wire and a permanent fretting whether as Appalachian dulcimer diatonic or chromatic like the modern guitar. Tuning heads have been installed much like the guitar or mandolin. How his pen-steman with mandolin (in fifths) with the same fingering and chord and played with a plectrum or pick.
Four Course Guitar has 4 pairs of strings, guitar-shaped body and a flat soundboard, bridge of the lute and the back half is curved but not too form a sphere. These instruments such as the guitar sized children.
Lute music instrument from Europe will be the beginning. This instrument was developed from the Arabic instrument called the Oud and have between 12 and 24 stringed musical instrument which is played by plucking the strings for the first pair of tones (like you're playing a 12-string guitar). The strings are made of catgut (sheep intestine) and fretnya made of catgut tied around the fingerboard / neck with some fret of wood or ivory that is attached to the upper end soundboardnya. Fret and soundboard has the same height, in contrast to the modern guitar fret that the higher umumya soundboardnya and its a lot of inlay ornaments. This instrument shape resembles a pear and a rounded back like half a melon shape. It does not have a saddle bridge and tuning his head similar to a violin. Theorbo is a variation of the lute with some extra strings. The difference with the lute is that Theorbo have extra strings as above and parallel to the tuning head necknya, where the tuning head for lute similar to a violin.
The notes include bass-baritone voice
Five Course Guitar emerged around the year 1490 and is similar to the four-course guitar with a pair of extra bass strings. This instrument also called English Guitar. Guittern an instrument with five pairs of strings and is played with fingerpicking or pick. The shape varies but the most common is like a violin shape and has bridge and tailpiece that can be mobilized to tighten the strings, although sometimes the strings tightened without a saddle bridge. Each pair of strings tuned in unison but sometimes tuned in octaves. Chittarra battente is a stringed instrument that uses wire and has a soundboard are made to the rear body corners. Popular in the 1500s and the use of permanent metal fret. Bandora is a variation of the cittern with a flat rear body section and shaped similar to the A-Style mandolin.
There is also Vihuela de Mano comes from Spain and is an instrument with six pairs of strings. Bodynya quite large as today's classical guitar and voice have some holes in it. This instrument uses a fixed bridge and the possibility of a direct ancestor of the guitar 12 string USA who entered North America through Mexico, Texas and Louisiana.
Vihuela de Mano comes from Spain and is an instrument with six pairs of strings. Bodynya quite large as today's classical guitar and voice have some holes in it. This instrument uses a fixed bridge and the possibility of a direct ancestor of the guitar 12 string USA who entered North America through Mexico, Texas and Louisiana. Four Course Guitar has 4 pairs of strings, guitar-shaped body and a flat soundboard, bridge of the lute and the back half is curved but not too form a sphere. These instruments such as the guitar sized children. Five Course Guitar emerged around the year 1490 and is similar to the four-course guitar with a pair of extra bass strings. This instrument also called English Guitar.
There are many other types of guitars growing. Guitar as we know it today, namely the six stringed, emerged around 1750. And for about the next 90 years (until 1840), six-string guitar is growing rapidly in Spain.

The inclusion of guitar in Indonesia

Occupation, in addition to leaving a note pain, art also. One of them was carrying a guitar by people Purtugis around the 17th century.
At that time the number of prisoners in the Malacca Portuguese origin settled by the Dutch in swampy areas in North Jakarta, in a village monument. So they do not get bored, they amuse themselves by playing music. Well, the music they use when it is the guitar. That said, the results of people's introduction to the instrument, was born some stringed instrument played to accompany the songs keroncong.
Baroque Guitar appears at the beginning of the 17th century. This guitar uses nylon strings, have a long, slim body with the top and bottom of the same magnitude. Tuning headnya made of wood and inserted as a classical guitar. Fretnya whether made of wood, metal or ivory is permanent.Six String Guitar real guitar, not developed until 1750.Parlor Guitars are very similar with the exception that the Baroque Guitar Parlor Guitars biasanta tuning for more mechanical. After about 1820, the lower body is larger than the top. This is similar to Guitar Washburn in 1887. Modern classical guitar that we see today did not develop until the year 1840 in Spain.

There are 3 types of guitars played by the prisoners at the time, namely:

1.Gitar Monica, which consists of 3 strings
2.Gitar Rorenga, which consists of 4 strings
3.Gitar Jitera, which consists of 5 strings.
Two centuries later keroncong guitar and became popular among the nobility and spread to all corners of the country.

Electric Guitar

In modern times, people began to recognize the guitar that utilizes the power source. Dihasilkanya sounds different from the sound of an electric guitar klasik.Gitar first made in 1932 by Adolphus Rickenbacker. This guitar takes the form of traditional Spanish guitar design.
After that, its development continues. The idea that speed up development begins from holding frequent concerts by the number of viewers a lot; so if unaided sound system, voice is not heard, especially when the audience shouting boisterous.
Guitar manufacturers have sprung up everywhere. Two of the famous Fender and Ibanez. In addition, the media also publish great guitar players through mejalah prestigious Guitar Player. Now, the components of the electric guitar, like the bridge / tremolo, pick-ups, as well as strings, even apart from the producer produced guitars.
There are also things that are quirky in the development of the seven-stringed guitar like a guitar, popularized by Steve Vai in 1989. The idea came when he joined David Lee Roth's band in 1985, the album Crazy from the Heat. He decided that because the bassist, Billy Sheehan, often set the bass with another formation called Drop D Tuning (from top to bottom: DADG, generally EADG). In collaboration with Ibanez in 1987, finally born seven stringed guitar first, with the top string, aka the seventh, pitched B. This guitar is called The Universe-7 String. Vai also has a guitar with a neck opposite (facing to the left and right), to prove his ability to play left-handed.
Meanwhile, Eddie Van Halen, a pioneer in the use of the whammy bar up-down that came to be known as the Floyd Rose tremolo / bridge. Innovation is equipped with a locking nut on the guitar strings. This system is known as a locking nut tremolo system.
Eddie developed a tremolo system that already exists. That tremolo that can only be pressed down or down (produce lower tones). The old system was developed by the Fender factory and installed as standard equipment on the model Stratocaster. These innovations have occurred to him in about 1976. At that time the great guitarists like Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page frequently encountered problems in tuning their guitars. Because they are often posted too much bending the strings to produce a sound that is 1 ½ tone higher. As a result, the strings must be loosened and the tone also be key. With the nut locking tremolo system, the strings locked in the guitar nut so as not to shift the tension.
A little extra, in 1991 has also been made of the greatest guitars in the United States, precisely in Indiana. Imagine, sampai11 meters long, almost as long as the two cars limousines! This guitar takes 6 people to play it.