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Outline of guitars

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars:

A variety of guitars.

A guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Most guitar necks have metal frets attached (the exception is fretless bass guitars). Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern 2010-era guitars are made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric. An acoustic guitar has a wooden top and a hollow body. An electric guitar may be a solid-body or hollow body instrument, which is made louder by using a pickup and plugging it into a guitar amplifier and speaker. Another type of guitar is the low-pitched bass guitar.

Instrument classification edit

A guitar can be described as all of the following:

Types and varieties of guitars edit

Standard guitar variations edit

Pitch-based variations edit

Steel guitars edit

Courses edit

  • Single course
  • Double course (e.g., 12-string guitar)
  • Triple course (e.g. Tiple Colombiano)
  • Four or more strings per course (e.g. Guitarron Chileno)

Extra strings edit

Fewer strings edit

Misc edit

Models edit

6-strings edit

Acoustic guitar models edit

Semi-acoustic models edit

Solid body electric models edit

Bass guitars edit

Bass guitars are also called "electric basses".

Parts edit

 
An Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar

Guitar accessories edit

Miscellaneous edit

Guitar amplifiers edit

Guitar amplifier

Guitar effects edit

Effects unit (also known as "Stomp Box")

Guitar software edit

Guitar use edit

Guitar music edit

Guitar tunings edit

See Guitar tunings and List of guitar tunings.

Guitar playing styles edit

The difference between guitar playing styles and guitar techniques (below) is that a style is a collection of techniques

Guitar technique edit

Main Category: Category:Guitar performance techniques

See also: Musical technique

Fretting hand technique edit

Bridge (Right) hand techniques edit

See also the following from List of musical terminology: sul porticello (plucking/strumming near the bridge), sul tasto (plucking/strumming above the fingerboard)

Strumming edit
Flat picking (single picking, plectrum picking) edit
Finger picking (multiple picking) edit
Percussive techniques edit

Head (Left) hand techniques edit

Legato techniques edit
Harmonic techniques edit

Guitar harmonic

Extended techniques edit

See also: Extended technique

History of guitars edit

Guitar makers edit

Guitar manufacturers

Guitar magazines edit

Guitar music edit

Guitar festivals edit

Guitar community edit

Significant guitarists edit

Guitar methodologies edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit

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