What is guitar?

Guitar is a plucked string musical instrument, one of the most popular in the world, consisting of a wooden box, a mast on which is attached the fingerboard or storage-usually with a sound hole in the center of the lid (mouth) - and six strings. On the fingerboard are inlaid frets, allowing different notes. Its specific name is classical guitar, Spanish guitar, acoustic guitar or acoustic guitar Used as a solo instrument or accompanying in many musical styles and kinds of music, as a fundamental tool in the musical styles such as blues, country, flamenco, rock music, metal, jazz and sometimes others in the 20th century, invented the electric guitar had a strong influence on popular culture.

Guitar consists of a body with a long neck, called "stamped".  Along it the strings in parallel, fixed at one end to a support body, the other - on the peg box at the end of the fingerboard. At the base casing strings attached or fastened still using sheep on the headstock using peg mechanism to adjust the tension of the strings. String lies on two thresholds; the lower and upper distance between them determines the maximum length of the working part of the string is Mansur guitar. Upper Saddle is located in the upper part of the neck, near the head. Bottom mounted on a stand on the body of the guitar. As the bottom of the nut can be used so-called "saddle" - simple mechanisms to adjust the length of each string.

There are two main types of acoustic guitars. This classical guitar with nylon strings, and western guitar with metal. Occupy a separate branch electric guitar, but I have not dwell as start learning should in any event on an acoustic guitar. But which of these two species, now we will investigate. To begin with we define their characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, the scope.

Classical guitarhas a wide neck, a relatively small body, nylon strings and slotted headstock. The sound is soft, deep and balanced, with good bass register. It is a versatile tool. It sounds good classics, ballads, jazz, flamenco, popular tunes. This guitar with a long history, is the ancestor of all modern types of guitars. It is based on it all the classical school and the classical technique of the game. Also excellent accompaniment for singing. But because of its sound somewhat opaque enough to be heard when playing ensemble chordal accompaniment, although the presence of a cartridge and built-TONE, this problem is easily solved. This type of guitar playing classical guitarists, guitarists playing Spanish music (flamenco), I only play classical guitar all kinds of music

Western guitar is called simply "acoustic", but this is not entirely true, because classical guitar also refers to the acoustic type.This guitar has a narrow neck, body larger volume than that of classical strings and iron headstock without slots. The sound is loud, clear with a predominance of high frequencies. Bourdon is not as pronounced as in the classic. This type of guitar sounds great in the ensemble, thanks to its sonority. When playing mediator provides a very powerful, compact, distinctive sound. Initially it was used only as an accompanying instrument. Then it began to be used as a solo instrument, playing fingerstyle technique musicians such as Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Andy McKee.