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Gibson Guitar Hero
The guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning.
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Gibson Starlight 300
Flat-top or steel-string guitars are similar to the classical guitar.
$3,000.00
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Thunder Fender X
The original purpose was to produce a very loud sound.
$6,200.00
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Gibson WoodMack Z
This violin-like construction is credited to the Gibson.
$1,800.00
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The earliest attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales by Juan Bermudo, published in 1555.
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The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive finger-picking technique where each string is plucked individually by the player's fingers, as opposed to being strummed.
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The guitar is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide.
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We can see this kind of naming in Setar, Tar, Dutar and Sitar.
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The word "Tar" at the end of all of these words is a Persian word that means "string".
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Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar.