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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". String instruments or stringed instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings. In most string instruments, the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument, which also vibrates, along with the air inside it. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. Common instruments in the string family include the violin, guitar, sitar, electric bass, viola, cello, harp, double bass, rebab, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and bouzouki. a·cous·tic gui·tarnouna guitar that does not require electrical amplification, having a hollow body that amplifies the vibrations of the strings HISTORY FAMOUS GUITARTISTS SOUND TYPE MATERIALS PITCH AMPLIFICATION The guitaris a plucked stringed musical instrument that probably originated in Spain early in the 16th century, deriving from the guitarra latina, a late-medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings. The early guitar was narrower and deeper than the modern guitar, with a less pronounced waist. It was closely related to the vihuela, the guitar-shaped instrument played in Spain in place of the lute. Wilson, Paul. "History of the Guitar." History of the Guitar. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. Wilson, Paul. "History of the Guitar." History of the Guitar. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. "Jimi Hendrix." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. The main source of sound in an acoustic guitar is the string, which is plucked with the finger or with a plectrum. The string vibrates at a necessary frequency and also create many harmonics at various different frequencies. The frequencies produced can depend on string length, mass, and tension. The string causes the soundboard and sound box to vibrate, and as these have their own resonances at certain frequencies, they amplify some string harmonics more strongly than others, hence affecting the timbre produced by the instrument. "-." RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. String instruments or stringed instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings. In most string instruments, the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument, which also vibrates, along with the air inside it. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. Common instruments in the string family include the violin, guitar, sitar, electric bass, viola, cello, harp, double bass, rebab, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and bouzouki. "Steilberg String Instruments." Steilberg String Instruments. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015. Every musical instrument has some part of it that moves in a regular, repeated motion to produce sound (a sustained tone, or pitch). On a guitar, this part is the vibrating string. A string that you bring to a certain tension and then set in motion (by a plucking action) produces a predictable sound for example, the note A. If you tune a string of your guitar to different tensions, you get different tones. The greater the tension of a string, the higher the pitch "How Guitar Strings and Frets Work." - For Dummies. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. A guitar amplifier (or guitar amp) is an electronic amplifier designed to amplify the electrical signal of an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker. Most guitar amplifiers can also modify the instrument's tone by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain frequencies "Guitar Amplifier." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. The majority of material comprising a modern guitar is still wood. Typical woods used for the body and neck of a guitar today are Mahogany, Ash, Maple, Basswood, Agathis, Alder, Poplar, Walnut, and Spruce. Woods from around the world are also incorporated into modern acoustic and electric guitars "Guitar Center: Music Instruments, Accessories, and Equipment." Guitar Center: Music Instruments, Accessories, and Equipment. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. sarah klatt
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