Guitars

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A guitar pick may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant hollow chamber on the guitar, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier.

electric or acoustic bass instrument

The balalaika (, ) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perfect fourth higher. The higher-pitched balalaikas are used to play melodies and chords. The instrument generally has a short sustain, necessitating rapid strumming or plucking when it is used to play melodies. Balalaikas are often used for Russian folk music and dancing.

thumb|right|250px|Guitar players in the city centre of Buenos Aires. A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both.

guitar technique for steel guitars

steel-string guitar with six double courses

guitar technique; part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section

plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings

electronic or digital device that alters how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds

electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body

musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, within a song structure

virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style

A guitarlele (sometimes spelled guitalele or guilele), is sometimes also called by brands name such as a ukitar, or kīkū, is a guitar-ukulele hybrid, that is a tenor or baritone ukulele body size, and a cross between a classical guitar and a tenor or baritone ukulele. The guitarlele combines the portability of a ukulele, due to its small size, with the six single strings and resultant chord possibilities of a classical guitar. It may include a built-in piezo saddle element pickup and equalizer preamp that permits playing the guitarlele either as an acoustic guitar or connected to an amplifier.

type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported

jazz instrument and associated playing style

guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks

stringed instrument

a simple musical instrument made from a cigar box with often recycled, repurposed or scavenged parts

musical instrument

type of steel-stringed acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar

plucked string instrument used in Indian classical music

type of guitar

Cambodian moon-lute, commonly has 2 courses of strings or 2 single strings.

stringed musical instrument

American music retailer chain

Type of lute

plucked string instrument of the Medieval period in Europe

also called the altgitarr, the Swedish name given to it by its Swedish inventor

method of playing a guitar

guitar technique

guitar fingerstyle

thumb|A six-course (music)|course double-strung 12 string lyre-guitar at the [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona.|269x269px]] thumb|alt=Girl with a lyre-guitar|A postcard showing a girl playing a lyre-guitar, . The classical theme is typical of the period.|316x316px A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara. It was tuned and played like the conventional gu