What Country Did the Guitar Originate From?

 

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument with six strings in most cases. It is played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand while pressing the strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand, which is held flat against the player's body. Strike the strings with a plectrum or individual finger picks. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically through the instrument's resonant chamber or electronically using an electronic pickup and amplifier.

The classical guitar (Spanish guitar/nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the Hawaiian guitar (played across the player's lap) are the three primary forms of modern guitar. Flat top guitars (usually with a big sound hole) and archtop guitars (sometimes known as "jazz guitars") are two types of traditional acoustic guitars. The vibrations of the strings are amplified by the hollow body of the guitar, which functions as a resonating chamber, producing the tone of an acoustic guitar. The classical Spanish guitar is frequently played as a solo instrument, employing a thorough fingerstyle approach in which each string is individually plucked by the player's fingers rather than strummed. In the United States, the word "finger-picking" can also refer to a certain folk, blues, bluegrass, and country guitar playing heritage.

The guitar descended from the guitarra latina, a late-medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings, and was most likely invented in Spain in the early 16th century. With a less noticeable waist, the early guitar was narrower and deeper than the modern guitar. It was closely connected to the vihuela, a guitar-shaped instrument that replaced the lute in Spain.