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Revision as of 22:08, 4 November 2011
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars:
Guitar – plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern guitars are made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric.
Nature of guitars
- Main article: Guitars
A guitar can be described as a:
Types and varieties of guitars
Standard guitar variations
- Archtop guitar
- Classical guitar
- Electric guitar
- Electric acoustic guitar
- Flamenco guitar
- Flat top guitar
- Fretless guitar
- Hybrid guitar
- Parlor guitar
- Resonator guitar
- Selmer-Maccaferri guitar
- Semi-acoustic guitar
- Silent guitar
- Steel string acoustic guitar
- Tailed bridge guitar
- Twelve string guitar
Pitch-based variations
Steel guitars
- Lap steel guitar (aka Hawaiian guitar)
- Pedal steel guitar
Extra strings
- 5 string bass
- 6 string bass
- Seven string guitar The Russian Guitar and Electric guitar
- Eight string guitar
Misc
- 3rd Bridge
- Harp guitar
- Gittler guitar
- Glock-Guitar
- Lyre-guitar
- Nano guitar
- Portuguese guitar
- Prepared guitar
- Vintage guitar
- Warr Guitars
Guitar-like instruments
- Tar (lute) Four-stringed Persian instrument
- Balalaika Russian guitar
- Banjo guitar - six-string banjo with the neck of a guitar. Also called a "guitjo".
- Cavaquinho small Luso-Brazilian guitar
- Cigar Box Guitar
- Chapman Stick
- Shamisen Three-stringed Japanese guitar
- Ukulele
- Lute (and Lutenist)
- Guitarlele
- Pencilina
Models
6 String
Acoustic guitar models
Semi-acoustic models
- Gibson ES-335
- Rickenbacker 360 (Both 12 string and 6 string models)
- Gretsch White Falcon
Solid body electric models
- Fender Stratocaster
- Fender Telecaster
- Gibson Les Paul
- Gibson SG
- Gibson Flying V
- Superstrat
- Steinberger
Basses
Parts of a guitar
- Headstock (peghead, head)
- Nut (instrumental)
- Machine heads (or Tuning keys)
- Frets
- Fretboard
- Truss rod
- Inlay (guitar)
- Neck (music)
- Neck joint: see Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck and Neck-thru
- Pick up (music technology) (Electric - Single coil (including P-90), Humbucker) (Acoustic - Piezoelectric)
- Bridge (instrument)
- Pickguard
- Body: The solid body of an electric and the sounding box of an acoustic
- Sounding board (Acoustic)
- Strings (music)
Guitar accessories
Misc
- Capo
- Dampit
- Guitar pick
- Neck-thru-body
- Slide
- Tremolo arm
- Electronic tuner
- Cable (Electric, some Acoustics)
Guitar amplifiers
- Distortion (guitar)
- Power attenuator (guitar)
- Preamplifier
- Stack: A guitar amplification setup consisting of one or more speaker cabinets and a "head" (amplifier), rather than a self-contained unit.
Guitar effects
(also known as "Stomp Box")
- Compression (electric guitar)
- Chorus effect
- Delay (audio effect)
- Fuzz (electric guitar)
- Flange (electric guitar)
- Phaser (electric guitar)
- Reverb (Reverberation)
- Sustain
- Ebow
- Guitar Floor Processor
- Overdrive/distortion terms
- Clean/Dirty
- Wah-wah pedal
Guitar software
- Amplitube (guitar software)
- Guitar Rig (guitar software)
- Guitar Pro
- G7 (guitar software)
- Guitar Tracks 3 Pro (guitar software)
- GCH (Multimedia Guitar Course)
- Power Tab
- RiffWorks Guitar recording and online collaboration software. Free version.
- Games
- Guitar Freaks An arcade game featuring playing guitars
- Guitar Hero Like Guitar Freaks, except for home use
- Frets on Fire A cross-platform Guitar Hero clone licensed under GNU GPL.
- RiffWorks - Guitar Recording Software, Online Collaboration, and Podcasting
- Rockband A muilti-platform game for Playstation 2, 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii which includes a guitar element similar to that of Guitar Hero/Freaks along with a Karaoke-like vocal element and a drum element.
Guitar use
Guitar music
- Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
- Classical guitar music
- Instrumental guitar
- Tablature notation ("Tab")
Guitar tunings
See Guitar tuning
Guitar playing styles
The difference between guitar playing styles and guitar techniques (below) is that a style is a collection of techniques
- 3rd Bridge
- Blues guitar playing
- Classical guitar techniques
- Downstrokes picking
- Extended technique
- Flamenco
- Flamrock
- Guitar solo
- Guitar Moves
- Jazz guitar
- Lead guitar
- Multiple guitar players
- Prepared guitar
- Rhythm guitar
- Shred guitar
- Slack-key guitar
- Slide guitar
Guitar technique
Main Category: Category:Guitar performance techniques
Fretting hand technique
Bridge (Right) hand techniques
See also the following from List of musical terminology: sul porticello (plucking/strumming near the bridge), sul tasto (plucking/strumming above the fingerboard)
Strumming
Flat picking (single picking, plectrum picking)
Finger picking (multiple picking)
- Apoyando: rest stroke
- Chicken picking
- Fingerstyle guitar (including Travis picking)
- Fingerpicking
- Pattern picking
- Picados
- Tirando: free stroke
Percussive techniques
Head (Left) hand techniques
- Double stop
- Finger vibrato (includes string-bending, and bending behind the nut)
- Left-hand muting
- Slide guitar
Legato techniques
Harmonic techniques
Extended techniques
History of guitars
Guitar makers
- Luthier (Guitar maker)
- Bailey, John
- B.C. Rich Guitars
- Bourgeois Guitars
- Caparison Guitars
- Carlos (guitar)
- Carvin A&I
- Collings Guitars
- Cort Guitars
- Dean Guitars
- Epiphone Guitars
- ESP Guitars
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
- Fernandes Guitars
- Flipper's Guitar
- Gibson Guitar Corporation
- Godin guitars
- Heritage Guitars
- Hagstrom
- Ibanez
- Kramer Guitars
- Kilometer
- Jackson Guitars
- John Bailey
- James Tyler Guitars
- Maton Guitars
- Martin Guitars
- MusicMan
- Novax Guitars
- Ovation Guitar Company
- Peavey Guitars
- Pensa Custom Guitars
- PRS Guitars
- Rickenbacker Guitars
- Schecter Guitar Research
- Shine Guitars
- Takamine Guitars
- Taylor Guitars
- Valley Arts Guitar
- Warwick (bass guitar)
- Washburn guitars
- Yamaha (manufacturer)
- Zon guitars
Guitar music
Guitar community
- Golden Guitar Attraction in Australia
Guitar magazines, web-sites and other media
- Guitar Player
- Guitar World
- Total Guitar
- Ultimate-Guitar
- Young Guitar Magazine
- Guitarist
- Vintage Guitar (magazine)
- TrueFire
- aeguitar.org
- Guitar Kit Builder
- Classical Guitar Links
- Guitar Chords 247
Guitar festivals
Significant guitarists
Guitar methodologies
Slang and other terms
- Axe - A Guitar
- Fret buzz
- Guitar battle or guitar duel
- Guitar face
- Guitar hero
- Guitar legend
- Jam (music) - Playing with other people
See also
References
External links
Guitars at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Instruments In Depth: The Guitar An online feature from Bloomingdale School of Music (October, 2007)
- Stalking the Oldest Six-String Guitar
- Guitar physics
- International Guitar Research Archive
- The Guitar, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring many historic guitars from the Museum's collection