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guitar
Title: guitar
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 451 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
guitar
Music Survey
(Ull01)
Guitar
A Guitar is a musical instrument of the lute family, having a flat, waisted body with a round sound hole and a fretted neck along which run six strings. The strings are fastened at the top of the neck to tuning screws, and at the other end to a bridge glued to the instrument's soundboard, or belly. The top three strings are usually made of gut or nylon; the others are …showed first 75 words of 451 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 451 total…United States in the 1930s, usually has a solid, nonresonant body. The sound of its strings is both amplified and manipulated electronically by the performer. American musician and inventor Les Paul developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s. As an instrument of classical music, the guitar came to prominence largely through the efforts of the Spanish composer Francisco Tarrega and the Spanish guitar virtuoso Andrés Segovia.
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