The Origin Of The Guitar

Rock and roll was built on the foundation of jazz, blues, country, and folk music. The Les Paul electric guitar was also a big contributor in music not just rock. One of the

he guitar goes way back to like the Medieval and the Renaissance time periods. Throughout the years it has impacted music in a huge way. You rarely listen to music that does not have the guitar either being the main instrument or working as a backup. Most music genres will be impossible without the guitar. Genres such as Rock, Spanish music, Country, American Blues etc. will not even exist if it wasn’t for the guitar. (Phoebe) “ Country and western music will not be the same without the guitar. The traditional spanish music will be impossible without the guitar. The American blues will not exist without the sad cry of the guitar”. The guitar has truly evolved and has impacted music in a huge way. And as the years go by it will keep on crying out its beautiful sound. In this essay i will tell you about how throughout the years artists have used the guitar to change music.

By the end of he novel, it has become clear that Milkman's sole purpose was to acquire information of his grandparents. Maybe he actually wanted to find a reason for the way his father acts with him and his family. After finding out who his grandparents were, the title of the novel, Song of Solomon, relates to the song that was composed by the people to tell the story of Solomon and the children, including Jake, Milkman's grandfather. His journey can symbolize his journey in becoming a man and becoming mature. At the beginning of the novel, readers were left thinking that the sane person throughout the novel was Guitar. However, by the end of the novel, we question Guitar's sanity and believe that the only sane person is Milkman because Guitar is planning on killing Milkman, "'Why the message? Why'd you warn me with a message at the store?' 'You're my friend. It's the least I could do for a friend.' 'My man. I want to thank you.' 'You're welcome, baby'" (298). In this quote, Milkman thanks Guitar about giving him a warning before killing him. If Milkman was a friend, Guitar would not have the thoughts of killing him. Throughout the novel, Guitar constantly criticizes the white people and the way they can easily murder black people. Guitar does not realize that he is doing the same thing by joining the Seven Days, whose sole

The ukulele was first originated around 1879, when Portuguese sailors brought similar guitars from their culture such as the machete to Hawaii, to later develop the ukulele. The Hawaiians admired these guitars, as they had adored its tunes and volume. According to a 1922 article, Paradise of the Pacific, by John King, “It’s known that João Fernandes, a Portuguese explorer, had sailed from the island of Madeira in Portugal and arrived in Hawaii in 1897, and was given credit for being the first person to play the ukulele in Hawaii”( para 1). However, the size and shape of the ukulele has an effect on the kind of tune it would have. The guitar usually comes in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. Back then, the Hawaiians gave the ukulele a nickname

The bow was first used by the Native Americans in Iowa, near 500 AD. The Indians constructed their bows using items in their environment. These materials included wood, antlers, horns, bones, and even animal intestines. Many bows were made short and more durable for using on horseback. All the other bow were made longer and meant for shooting long distances. The strings for the bow could be made of various materials, depending on what was available to them. (www.historyoffighting.com) The strings were mainly

Music was an important role of the ancient Egyptian lifestyle and is where many musical instruments that are used today developed. It was played in temples for worship, during holidays and social events. Music was also used to make workers more productive because it was found to be more bearable and motivating. This article describes the importance of these instruments by explaining how they originated, the structure of them, and how they are used for worship.

after using a couple of non-Gibson guitars he moved on and used for the most

The fiddle had a high pitched sound that went along well with the “high lonesome” singing (Langrall, 1986). It is not certain when the banjo entered, but it was the next instrument added to strings for Appalachian music. The next stringed instrument was the guitar. Bands called String Bands came around and as they were reserved, they when out and entertained people, instead of just singing with a couple of people (Langrall, 1986). These String Band players played court days, political rallies, country fairs and at other social gatherings (langrall, 1986). Sting bands would play for dances such as the waltz (Olson). As the string bands started with the fiddle when the banjo gain popularity in the Appalachian music it was included in the sting bands followed by the guitar and the mandolin

Music played a significant role in the lives of ancient Greeks. They believed that music fostered one’s relationship with the gods, and some instruments, such as the lyre, were created by the gods. Music and dance were also taught

Music in Ancient Greece was well integrated in their society, it played a large role in various ceremonies from marriages to funerals, as well as entertainment like plays or epic poetry. Although it is believed that music was invented in Africa over 55,000 years ago, music really began and took shape in Ancient Greece. Even the word music came from the Greek word muses who were believed to be the daughters of Zeus and were the patron Goddesses of creativity. There are many references to music in ancient Greece, from drawings on pottery of people playing, as well as literary works that even describe how the instruments sounded. Speaking of instruments, in addition to the voice being used as one, there are several instruments that are known to have existed in Ancient Greece, a few different string instruments including a lyre, a kithara (which is believed to be the ancient equivalent of a guitar), and a barbitos, which is a taller version of a lyre. They also had several wind type instruments including and aulos, pan pipes, a hydraulis (which eventually led to the modern day organ), as well as a salpinx, which was an ancient type of trumpet with a bone mouthpiece that was the origin of the many brass instruments that we know of today. Finally, we also know of several percussion instruments that were used by the ancient Greeks, these include a tympanum, which was like a tambourine, a crotala, and a koudounia. Music was actually one of the main teachings, along with gymnastics

After the Guittern, the guitar’s structure stayed the same and had little changes. One of the slightly improved guitars was called the Ghitarra Battente. The Ghitarra Battente was the first guitarlike instrument to use a saddle, a movable bridge, and led the trend towards metal frets (4). The Ghitarra Battente helped the popularity of the guitar grow tremendously. This instrument somewhat slowed down the development and improvements to the guitar until the 1500s. In the 1500s, the Vinuhela de Mano was introduced to the world. The Vinuhela de Mano is the the largest guitar to date and set the size for the modern guitar. This instrument had several soundholes on the top of the guitar, was played using a pick, and used gut strings. The Vihuela de Mano resembles the modern twelve-stringed guitars. The first publication of music for the guitar was published in 1564 and was called “Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela.” After the Vihuela de Mano, many forms of the guitar emerged that improved the structure of the

More than any other instrument, the electric guitar has shaped and redefined music in the last century. Although popular culture did not pay much attention to it when it was first introduced in the 1930s, it has since become equated with the very essence of rock and roll music. On an international level, the electric guitar is by far "the most famous instrument to come out of the United States" (howstuffworks.com).

Fender is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. The privately held company was founded by Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender in Clifornia in 1946. The company specializes in solid body electric guitars such as the Stratocaster and Telecaster, and solid body electric bass guitars such as the Precision and Jazz models. Fender instruments are widely considered to be the standard to which most other electric guitars are measured.

The Romans were not the most innovative of ancient cultures when it came to music, as it wasn’t held to the same importance in Rome as it was in other cultures. Regardless, the Romans did very much enjoy music and admire its use in other cultures. And so, instead of creating a Roman version of music, they borrowed the musical instruments and musical theory from those other cultures. One of them was Etruscans. Though the fact that the Etruscans had an impact on music in Rome is known, the magnitude of that impact is unknown, but instruments used in Roman life such as the tuba and the cornu are believed to have been borrowed from the Etruscans. However, it was the Greeks that had the greatest influence on Roman music. A multitude of instruments used

guitars and process them so that they sound like a percussion instrument.”.’(Butch Vig, from R. Buskin: