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283 relations: Accompaniment, Acoustic guitar, Acoustic music, Action (music), Adult contemporary music, Airtam Frieze, Alaca Höyük, Alder, All fifths tuning, All fourths tuning, Amplifier, Ancient Greek, Andalusi Arabic, Andreas Paolo Perger, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Archtop guitar, Audio feedback, Audio power amplifier, Babylonia, Bandola, Baroque, Baroque guitar, Barre chord, Bass amplifier, Bass guitar, Bass guitar tuning, Billy Gibbons, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bone, Bowed string instrument, Brass, Brian May, C (musical note), C. F. Martin & Company, Capacitor, Carolingian dynasty, Catgut, Cello, Chord (music), Choro, Christian Frederick Martin, Chromatic scale, Cittern, Classical guitar, Classical music, Clef, Corian, Country music, Course (music), ... Expand index (233 more) »
- Blues instruments
- C instruments
- Folk music instruments
- Necked box lutes
- Orchestral instruments
- Rhythm section
Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece. Guitar and Accompaniment are rhythm section.
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. Guitar and acoustic guitar are rhythm section.
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Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
Action (music)
The action of a string instrument that is plucked, strummed, or bowed by hand is the distance between the fingerboard and the string.
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.
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Airtam Frieze
The Airtam Frieze is a sculpture in stone of women, musicians from Kushan Bactria dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD, which was excavated from the ruins of Airtam, near Termez in southern Uzbekistan.
Alaca Höyük
Alacahöyük or Alaca Höyük (sometimes also spelled as Alacahüyük, Euyuk, or Evuk) is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site.
Alder
Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.
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All fifths tuning
Among guitar tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth.
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All fourths tuning
Among alternative tunings for the guitar, all-fourths tuning is a regular tuning.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Andalusi Arabic
Andalusi Arabic or Andalusian Arabic was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken mainly from the 9th to the 15th century in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula, respectively modern Spain until the late-15th century, and modern Portugal until the mid-13th century under Muslim rule.
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Andreas Paolo Perger
Andreas Paolo Perger (born 1970 in Munich, Germany) is a contemporary Austrian guitarist, improviser, and composer of German-Polish and Austrian-Italian descent.
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Antonio de Torres Jurado
Antonio de Torres Jurado (13 June 1817 – 19 November 1892) was a Spanish guitarist and luthier, and "the most important Spanish guitar maker of the 19th century." It is with his designs that the first recognizably modern classical guitars are to be seen.
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Archtop guitar
An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players. Guitar and archtop guitar are blues instruments and guitars.
Audio feedback
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker) and its audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup).
Audio power amplifier
An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones.
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Babylonia
Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).
Bandola
The bandola is one of many varieties of small pear-shape chordophones found in Venezuela and Colombia.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Baroque guitar
The Baroque guitar (–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets.
Barre chord
In music, a barre chord (also spelled bar chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument played by using one finger to press down multiple strings across a single fret of the fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings).
Bass amplifier
A bass amplifier (also abbreviated to bass amp) is a musical instrument electronic device that uses electrical power to make lower-pitched instruments such as the bass guitar or double bass loud enough to be heard by the performers and audience. Guitar and bass amplifier are blues instruments and folk music instruments.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. Guitar and bass guitar are blues instruments, folk music instruments, guitars, rhythm section and string instruments.
Bass guitar tuning
Each bass guitar tuning assigns pitches to the strings of an electric bass.
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Billy Gibbons
William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American rock musician, best known as the guitarist and primary vocalist of ZZ Top.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
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Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.
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Bowed string instrument
Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.
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Brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.
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Brian May
Sir Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal rights activist and astrophysicist.
C (musical note)
C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.
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C. F. Martin & Company
C.F. Martin & Company (often referred to as Martin) is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin.
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Capacitor
In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.
Carolingian dynasty
The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
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Catgut
Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines.
Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Guitar and cello are c instruments.
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Chord (music)
In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.
Choro
Choro ("cry" or "lament"), also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro.
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Christian Frederick Martin
Christian Frederick Martin Sr. (Christian Friedrich Martin I.; January 31, 1796 – February 16, 1873) was a German-born American luthier who specialized in guitars and the founder of C. F. Martin & Company.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.
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Cittern
The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Guitar and cittern are string instruments.
Classical guitar
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. Guitar and classical guitar are guitars and string instruments.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Clef
A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff.
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Corian
Corian is a brand of solid surface material created by DuPont.
Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
Course (music)
A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string. Guitar and course (music) are string instruments.
Cutaway (guitar)
A cutaway on the guitar construction is an indentation in the upper bout of the guitar body adjacent to the guitar neck, designed to allow easier access to the upper frets.
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Cythara
The cythara is a wide group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. Guitar and cythara are string instruments.
Discipline Global Mobile
Discipline Global Mobile (DGM, or Discipline GM) is an independent record label founded in 1992 by Robert Fripp (best known as guitarist and main composer for the band King Crimson) and producer/online content developer David Singleton.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
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Distortion (music)
Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.
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Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). Guitar and double bass are blues instruments, c instruments, folk music instruments and rhythm section.
Dreadnought (guitar type)
The dreadnought is a type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company.
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Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s.
Early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).
Ebony
Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.
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Effects unit
An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing. Guitar and effects unit are guitars.
Eight-string guitar
An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven.
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Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
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Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. Guitar and electric guitar are blues instruments and rhythm section.
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Electrical impedance
In electrical engineering, impedance is the opposition to alternating current presented by the combined effect of resistance and reactance in a circuit.
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Electromagnetism
In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields.
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Electronic tuner
In music, an electronic tuner is a device that detects and displays the pitch of musical notes played on a musical instrument.
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Eleven-string alto guitar
The eleven-string alto guitar (also known as altgitarr, archguitar, or Bolin guitar) is an extended-range classical guitar developed by Swedish luthier Georg Bolin in the 1960s. Guitar and eleven-string alto guitar are guitars.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
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Equalization (audio)
Equalization, or simply EQ, in sound recording and reproduction is the process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal.
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Fado
Fado ("destiny, fate") is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal but probably has much earlier origins.
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Fender (company)
The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers.
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Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
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Fingerboard
The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.
Fingerstyle guitar
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").
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Flamenco
Flamenco is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.
Flamenco guitar
A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but with lower action, thinner tops and less internal bracing.
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Flat top guitar
A flat top guitar is a type of guitar body model which has a flat top (as opposed to archtop). Guitar and flat top guitar are guitars.
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Fluorocarbon
Fluorocarbons are chemical compounds with carbon-fluorine bonds.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Fraxinus
Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.
Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
Fret
A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.
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Fretless bass
A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the acoustic upright double bass.
Fretless guitar
A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. Guitar and fretless guitar are guitars.
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Frying Pan (guitar)
The Rickenbacker Electro A-22, nicknamed the "Frying Pan" is the first electric lap steel guitar, also widely considered to be the first commercially successful electric guitar.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
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Gaspar Sanz
Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma (April 4, 1640 (baptized) – 1710), better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain.
George Beauchamp
George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments.
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Gibson Brands
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.
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Gittern
The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England).
Glissando
In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.
Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.
Grunge
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. Guitar and guitar are blues instruments, c instruments, folk music instruments, guitars, necked box lutes, orchestral instruments, rhythm section and string instruments.
Guitar amplifier
A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet. Guitar and guitar amplifier are blues instruments and folk music instruments.
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Guitar bracing
Guitar bracing refers to the system of wooden struts which internally support and reinforce the soundboard and back of acoustic guitars. Guitar and guitar bracing are guitars.
Guitar chord
In music, a guitar chord is a set of notes played on a guitar.
Guitar Craft
Guitar Craft (GC) was a series of guitar and personal-development classes, founded and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with the rock band King Crimson. Guitar and guitar Craft are guitars.
Guitar pick
A guitar pick (American English) is a plectrum used for guitars.
Guitar solo
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar.
Guitar tunings
Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Guitar and guitar tunings are guitars.
Guitarra latina
The guitarra latina is a plucked string instrument of the Medieval period in Europe. Guitar and guitarra latina are guitars.
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Guitarra morisca
The Guitarra morisca or Mandora medieval is a plucked string instrument. Guitar and Guitarra morisca are guitars.
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Guitarrón mexicano
The guitarrón mexicano (Spanish for "big Mexican guitar", the suffix -ón being a Spanish augmentative) or Mexican guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar played traditionally in Mariachi groups.
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Hammer-on
A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on to the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.
Headstock
A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instruments such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Helmholtz pitch notation
Helmholtz pitch notation is a system for naming musical notes of the Western chromatic scale.
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Helmholtz resonance
Helmholtz resonance, also known as wind throb, refers to the phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity, an effect named after the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
History of the classical guitar
The evolution of classical guitars began with the influences of the gittern and vihuela in the 16th century and ended with the modern classical guitar in the mid-19th century.
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Hittites
The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia.
Humbucker
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups.
Instrument amplifier
An instrument amplifier is an electronic device that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into a larger electronic signal to feed to a loudspeaker. Guitar and instrument amplifier are blues instruments.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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International Standard Music Number
The International Standard Music Number or ISMN (ISO 10957) is a thirteen-character alphanumeric identifier for printed music developed by ISO.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.
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Intonation (music)
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument.
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Inversion (music)
In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music.
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Isaac Guillory
Isaac Guillory (February 27, 1947 – December 31, 2000) was an American folk guitarist.
James Tyler (musician)
James Tyler (August 3, 1940 – November 23, 2010) was a 20th-century American lutenist, banjoist, guitarist, composer, musicologist and author, who helped pioneer an early music revival with more than 60 recordings.
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Jangle pop
Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock or college rock that emphasizes jangly guitars and 1960s-style pop melodies.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jazz guitar
Jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or a guitar playing style in jazz, using electric amplification to increase the volume of acoustic guitars. Guitar and jazz guitar are guitars.
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
John Dopyera
John Dopyera (Slovak: Ján Dopjera; 1893–1988) was a Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur, and a maker of stringed instruments.
Jota (music)
The jota is a genre of music and the associated dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon.
Kithara
The kithara, or Latinized cithara (κιθάρα |translit.
Kramer Guitars
Kramer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses.
Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Guitar and lap steel guitar are guitars.
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Ledger line
A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff.
Legato
In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.
Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.
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Line 6 (company)
Line 6 is a musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer, best known as a pioneer in guitar amplifier and effect modeling.
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List of guitar manufacturers
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about brand-name companies (past and present) that have sold guitars, and the house brands occasionally used.
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Lloyd Loar
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer.
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. Guitar and lute are orchestral instruments.
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Luthier
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
Machine head
A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension.
Mahogany
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
Major second
In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones.
Major third
In classical music, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third is a third spanning four half steps or two whole steps. Along with the minor third, the major third is one of two commonly occurring thirds.
Major thirds tuning
Among alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third ("M3" in musical abbreviation).
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. Guitar and mandolin are blues instruments, folk music instruments, guitars, necked box lutes, orchestral instruments and string instruments.
Manuel de Soto y Solares
Manuel de Soto y Solares (born 1839 in Sevilla, Andalucía – d. 1906) was a Spanish luthier.
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Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
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Mariachi
Mariachi is an ensemble of musicians that typically play ranchera, the regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
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Minor seventh
In music theory, a minor seventh is one of two musical intervals that span seven staff positions.
Modulus Guitars
Modulus Graphite (formerly, Modulus Guitars) is an American manufacturer of musical instruments best known for building bass guitars with carbon fiber necks.
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Moors
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
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Morphology (archaeology)
In archaeology, morphology is the study of the shape of artefacts and ecofacts.
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Mortise and tenon
A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.
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Multi-neck guitar
A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. Guitar and multi-neck guitar are guitars.
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Music of Hawaii
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.
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Neck (music)
The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches.
Neck-through-body construction
Neck-through-body (commonly neck-thru or neck-through) is a method of electric guitar construction that combines the instrument's neck and core of its body into a single unit.
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New standard tuning
New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
New-age music
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.
Nine-string guitar
A nine-string guitar is a guitar with nine strings instead of the commonly used six strings.
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Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid.
Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
Open chord
In music for stringed instruments, especially guitar, an open chord (open-position chord) is a chord that includes one or more strings that are not fingered. Guitar and open chord are rhythm section.
Orville Gibson
Orville H. Gibson (May 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
Oud
The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively. Guitar and oud are string instruments.
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Outline of guitars
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: A guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. Guitar and outline of guitars are guitars.
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Ovation Guitar Company
The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of string instruments.
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Paracho de Verduzco
Paracho de Verduzco (often called Paracho) is a small city located in Michoacán, Mexico.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Parlor guitar
Parlor or parlour guitar usually refers to a type of acoustic guitar smaller than a Size No.0 Concert Guitar by C. F. Martin & Company.
Patch cable
A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.
Pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than other steel guitar designs.
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Perfect fourth
A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Peso
The peso is the monetary unit of several Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, as well as the Philippines.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.
Plectrum
A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.
Plucked string instrument
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
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Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Portamento
In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another.
Portuguese guitar
The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra (guitarra portuguesa) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses of two strings. Guitar and portuguese guitar are guitars and necked box lutes.
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Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
Power chord
A power chord, also called a fifth chord, is a colloquial name for a chord on guitar, especially on electric guitar, that consists of the root note and the fifth, as well as possibly octaves of those notes.
Preamplifier
A preamplifier, also known as a preamp, is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.
Premier Guitar
Premier Guitar is a media company devoted to guitarists.
Psalter
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints.
Public address system
A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
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Pull-off
A pull-off is a stringed instrument playing and articulation technique performed by plucking or "pulling" the finger that is grasping the sounding part of a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument.
Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Purfling
Purfling is a narrow decorative edge inlaid into the top plate and often the back plate of a stringed instrument.
Quarter (United States coin)
The quarter, formally known as the quarter dollar, is a denomination of currency in the United States valued at 25 cents, representing one-quarter of a dollar.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
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Ratio
In mathematics, a ratio shows how many times one number contains another.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Regular tuning
Among alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Renaissance music
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.
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Requinto guitar
A requinto guitar is a smaller version of a classical guitar, with a scale length between 52-54cm.
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Reverb effect
A reverb effect, or reverb, is an audio effect applied to a sound signal to simulate reverberation.
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.
Riff
A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition.
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Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music.
Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds.
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.
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Root (chord)
In the music theory of harmony, the root is a specific note that names and typifies a given chord.
Rosette (design)
A rosette is a round, stylized flower design.
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Rosewood
Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours.
Scale length (string instruments)
The scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can produce at a given tension.
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Scientific pitch notation
Scientific pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.
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Scordatura
Scordatura (literally, Italian for "discord", or "mistuning") is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning.
Semi-acoustic guitar
A semi-acoustic guitar, also known as a hollow-body electric guitar, is a type of electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body and at least one electromagnetic pickup. Guitar and semi-acoustic guitar are guitars.
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Semitone
A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
Seven-string guitar
The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also to extend the treble range.
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Signal
Signal refers to both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation.
Single coil guitar pickup
A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass.
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Sixpence (British coin)
The British sixpence piece, sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound or half of one shilling.
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Ska
Ska (skia) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
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Slide guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. Guitar and Slide guitar are guitars.
Solid body
Sound sample of solid-body electric guitar. A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly detect the vibrations of the strings; these instruments are usually plugged into an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard.
Solo (music)
In music, a solo (alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.
Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Sound board (music)
A soundboard (occasionally called a sounding board) is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge.
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Sound hole
A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.
Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.
Staff (music)
In Western musical notation, the staff: "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves" (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
Stainless steel
Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.
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Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.
Steel bar
A steel bar, commonly referred to as a "steel", but also referred to as a tone bar, slide bar, guitar slide, slide, or bottleneck, is a smooth hard object which is pressed against strings to play steel guitar and is itself the origin of the name "steel guitar".
Steel guitar
A steel guitar (kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. Guitar and steel guitar are guitars.
Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Guitar and steel-string acoustic guitar are rhythm section.
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Steinberger
Steinberger is a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger.
Stock keeping unit
In inventory management, a stock keeping unit (abbreviated as SKU, pronounced or) is the unit of measure in which the stocks of a material are managed.
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String (music)
In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Guitar and string (music) are string instruments.
String harmonic
Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Guitar and string instrument are rhythm section and string instruments.
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Strum
In music, strumming is a way of playing a stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin.
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Stuttgart Psalter
The Stuttgart Psalter (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Bibl. fol. 23) is a richly illuminated 9th-century psalter, considered one of the most significant of the Carolingian period.
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Tapping
Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar.
Ten-string guitar
There are many varieties of ten-string guitar, including. Guitar and ten-string guitar are guitars.
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Tenor guitar
The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar.
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964.
Thuja plicata
Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Tilia americana
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.
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Tiple
A tiple (literally treble or soprano), is a plucked typically 12-string chordophone of the guitar family. Guitar and tiple are necked box lutes.
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Tonewood
Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments.
Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.
Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano).
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Trap music
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music pioneered by Atlanta rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane, which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999.
Travis Bean
Clifford Travis Bean (21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011, aged 63) was an American luthier and machinist from California.
Tremolo
In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.
Truss rod
The truss rod is a component of a guitar or other stringed instrument that stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature (also called relief) of the neck.
Twelfth root of two
The twelfth root of two or \sqrt (or equivalently 2^) is an algebraic irrational number, approximately equal to 1.0594631.
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Twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Guitar and twelve-string guitar are guitars.
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Uli Jon Roth
Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth; 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre.
Vacuum tube
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
Variax
Variax was the name of a line of guitars developed and marketed by Line 6 between 2002 and 2023. Guitar and Variax are guitars.
Veleno (guitar)
The Veleno guitar is a highly regarded series of aluminium guitars built by metal craftsman John Veleno. Guitar and Veleno (guitar) are guitars.
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
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Vicente Espinel
Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (28 December 15504 February 1624) was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro.
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Vihuela
The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. Guitar and vihuela are necked box lutes.
Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed. Guitar and viola are c instruments and folk music instruments.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Guitar and violin are c instruments, folk music instruments and necked box lutes.
Volume swell
A volume swell is a musical crescendo commonly associated with the electric guitar.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Blues instruments
- Archtop guitar
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Harmonica
- Instrument amplifier
- Mandolin
C instruments
- Bass flute
- Bass trumpet
- C melody saxophone
- C soprano saxophone
- Celesta
- Cello
- Contrabass bugle
- Cornettino
- Double bass
- Guitar
- Harpsichord
- Marimba
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Vibraphone
- Viola
- Violin
- Western concert flute
Folk music instruments
- Accordion
- Almpfeiferl
- Banjo
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Bhankora
- Damau
- Dhol damau
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Folk instrument
- Folk instruments of Punjab
- Guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Harmonica
- Mandolin
- Mashak
- Ransingha
- Tin whistle
- Tiwa musical instruments
- Viola
- Violin
- Zither
Necked box lutes
- Citole
- Cuatro (instrument)
- Fiddles
- Guitar
- Machete (musical instrument)
- Mandolin
- Mandolins in North America
- Nyckelharpa
- Octophone
- Portuguese guitar
- Quinton (musical instrument)
- Suroz
- Tiple
- Tres (instrument)
- Ukulele
- Vihuela
- Violin
Orchestral instruments
- Alto trombone
- Bass trombone
- Bassoon
- Celesta
- Cimbasso
- Clarinet
- Colascione
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Contrabass trombone
- Contrabassoon
- Cor anglais
- Fortepiano
- French horn
- Guitar
- Harp
- Lute
- Mandolin
- Natural horn
- Natural trumpet
- Oboe
- Organ (music)
- Pedal harp
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Saxophone
- Serpent (instrument)
- String section
- Theorbo
- Timpani
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Western concert flute
Rhythm section
- Accompaniment
- Acoustic guitar
- Alternate bass
- Backline (stage)
- Bass guitar
- Bassline
- Bateria
- Comping (jazz)
- Contrabass guitar
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Electric sitar
- Electronic drum
- Guitar
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Jazz bass
- Jazz chord
- Nashville Number System
- Offstage musicians and singers in popular music
- Oom-pah
- Open chord
- Piano
- Rhythm section
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- String instrument
- Synthesizer
- Tambourine
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