Jake+-+Guitar

//Guitars are a part of me and I loved them from the start. It helped me get through things when they were going bad. I would sit and play and stop worrying about what’s next. I wanted to learn everything about them because I wanted to know the history of something important to me. I have always wanted to learn about them but never found the time with school. Now I did and now I know a lot more about them then I did before. When i was little my brother played guitar everyday and I would listen to him play. I wanted to know how to play but he didn't want to teach me. He said he did but never got to it. That christmas I asked for a guitar. When santa put it under my tree i was so excited to play it that i jumped with joy. I was only eleven so everything was exciting to me. I never thought I would get good I was just so excited to strum up and down even though it sounded horrible. Then i fell in love with it, I kept playing and playing sometimes 8 hours a day in the summer and I would stay up late to play. After months went by I learned a couple chords there and there. Then I learned scales. I practiced them over and over again till it was perfect. My parents told me I could never do it but I proved them wrong. That is why im doing my research on guitars.// //How is a guitar played? Guitars are played with a pick or your fingers. The neck to the body has 6 strings attached across a fret board. They are mostly made out of wood. Guitars are mostly repaired by Luthiers, both Acoustic and Electric (wikipedia).// //From Epudics.com// //What is a fretboard? A fret board has metal frets that are from the top to the bottom of the guitar. It depends on the type of guitar but it’s either flat or curved. The smaller the radius of the fret board the more it's noticed. Tightening the string to the fret board shortens the vibration length of the string which gives it higher pitch (Wikipedia).//

//**What year did the guitar come around? Some say the guitar started around 1500's with basic string instruments and is question if it really is or not. Not just the instrument but also the music. (Ellwood)**// //**Some believe Guitars were invented around the Medieval Period. They originated and invented from Europe. The modern guitars like you see today came from Spain. They say it started around 1850 by Antonio Torres. He decided to increase the size of the body and changed the way it looked in his own style. He also improved the volume, tone, and projection of the guitar (Ellwood).**//

//**What was the first types of guitars made out of? The first stringed instrument was bowl harps and tan burs. They use these guitars with tortoise shells and calabashes. They used a stick that was curved for a neck and had one or two gut strings. Archaeologists say they started before 2000 CE. 11 stringed harps came in more advanced years.**// //**The first music written with a guitar was in the 16th century in Spain. A guitar had 5 strings and was tuned to A, D, G, B, E, like the modern guitar is (Guy).**//



//What does the word guitar mean? Guitar comes from the word "tar" which means strings. It is from the Ancient Sanskrit word. The prefix of Guitar stands for how many strings there are. In Central Asia these instruments have been used for several thousand years so it stayed that way (guy).//

//What is the basic format of a guitar? Guitars use both left hand and right hand to pluck or strum the guitar. The dominate hand usually plucks the strings which is mostly the right hand. This is all of expressions such as dynamics, tonal expression, and color. Some people play left handed which changes the sound of the guitar and negatively effects the intonation. For example Jimi Hendrix played left handed. people thought it was a good thing though because it helped his unique sound (Wikipedia).//

//**Who made the first guitar? Antonio Torres started making his guitars in Spain at around the same time Germany immigrants were sent to the USA. He had started to make guitars with x-braced tops. In 1900, came along steel strings and it would make the guitar sound louder. These strings didn't help though with Torres fan braced design. Christian Fredrik Martin made the x brace for the steel strings (Ellwood).**//

//**(Antonio Torres) (Christian Fredrik Martin)**// //**How do the strings effect the guitar? The strings produce vibrations in guitars but the volume needed to be increased because of the air inside the string. The acoustic guitar was invented with vibrations in the body to make it louder. The body is hollow and drives it to the bridge. Overall produces a louder sound to hear. (Ellwood).**//

//**When were amps invented? Amps came along in the end of the 1930's. It was one of the most successful innovations for making the guitar louder, some believe it's not (Bells).**//



//**In 1931 Adolph Rickenbacker met George Reauchamp and Paul Barth who worked together on the principle of magnetic pick-up, they all formed The Electro String Company where they produced Hawaiian guitars. They would eventually prompted Gibson (A Guitar Company) and others to start making all electric guitars (Bells).**//

//**Who orginated guitars? Luthiers originated electric guitars. Manufacturers also helped to produce them. Some of the earliest electrics had hollow bodies and acoustic layout. They started having pick-ups and manufactured in 1931 by the Electro String Instrument Corporation (Ellwood).**//

//**When did Fender start? Right after the 2nd World War, Clarence Leonidas Fender or Leo Fender made the first solid body electric guitar with a Pick-up which was named Esquire. He made it through his company Eponymous (Ellwood).**// //Fender.com// //**Did gutars change style in a period of time? Five to six strings instruments were transferred and some stayed the same. It was an easy task because you only had to replace the nuts and bolts. You also had to put on more peg holes. The six strings were discovered by the German master Joakim Thielke** (Guy).//

//**What do guitars use? For thousands of years, Acoustic guitars with hollow bodies had been used. They came a long way through history. The steel string acoustic guitar, the classical guitar and arch top guitar are there main types of modern guitars. The vibration of strings produces the tone which is amplified by the body of a guitar** (wikipedia).//
 * The guitar is something interesting to learn about and I hope you have learned something as well. From making animal fat strings to a chop up hollow body it has come a long way. I’m glad the guitar was invented how it was because I couldn’t live without it. I think music isn't music in less your heart is in it. The number one music I dislike is rap. It ruins music because they don't even sing and it's all computer. Rappers have no talent in my opinion and all they do is talk into a microphone and put it to a beat. The music I like is inspirational progressive rock. You have to have talent to play it and it sounds good. I play guitar for a band and I can't stand people who listen to rap if that's all they listen too. The music industry is all about money anymore. Rappers rap about stupid stuff and call it a song. When you play a guitar you feel emotion and not a bass in the background that is turned all the way up to block the sound of the music.Guitar comes in many styles because of all the different emotions you get from each guitar. It seperates it in to genres. Overall music is my favorite thing and always will be.**