The guitar has become one of the most prominent components of contemporary music. People have been playing instruments very similar to the guitar for hundreds of years. Michael Kasha’s book A New Look at the History of the Classic Guitar shows that there has even been a discovery of a certain Hittite carving from over 3,000 years ago that shows an instrument that seems to share many features of a modern guitar (Kasha 12). The guitar is a member of the chordophone family, meaning that it is an instrument that creates sound through vibrating strings that are stretched between two points. About sixty years ago, the guitar underwent a modification that would forever change the rest of the musical world- it was electrified.
There is a similarity between the Greek word “kithara” and the Spanish word “guitar.” Dr. Kasha later than questioned the Greeks on where they got the name “kithara” and realizes that the earliest kithara had only four strings when introduced from abroad. He guesses the Greeks took the old Persian name for a 4-stringed instrument “chartar.” The guitar was invented four hundred years ago and ever since then it has been such a good innovative instrument. The guitar serves as sound, or the heart of a song. It could be used in many different types of music from Heavy Metal and punk music, to Jazz, and Blues it has been the biggest factor in modern music and between acoustic guitar and electric guitar there is a lot of history. The name “guitar” originates from the ancient Sanskrit word for “string”-“tar”.
One of these covers was a country and western song, "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Elvis is the best-selling solo artist of all time in the United States with confirmed 189.2 million records in RIAA shipments. Before Sam Philips sold Elvis' contract to rca victor in 1956 for $35,000 they had recorded six two-sided singles. Each of these recordings featured a country and western song on one side and a rhythm and blues song on
The home page will have a picture of the band along with a short description on the goals of the website. The first section page on the site will be the biographies of the band members named bios.html. The first page will have a description of the band as a whole with sub categories for each band member (Dave_bio.html, Carter_bio.html, Boyd_bio.html, Stefan_bio.html, Leroi_bio.html). The second section page will be information on the touring schedule of the band named tour.html. These pages will give the tour dates for the present year.
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942– September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite his mainstream exposure being limited to four years. He achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival after initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier
Company Background Suzuki Loom Works, a privately owned loom manufacturing company, was founded in 1909 in Hamamatsu, Japan, by Michio Suzuki. In 1952, the company began manufacturing and marketing a 2-cycle, 36 cubic centimeter (cc) motorcycle, which became so popular that in 1954 the company introduced a second motorcycle and changed its name to Suzuki Motor Company, Ltd. (Suzuki). During the late 1950s, lightweight vehicle sales boomed in Japan. Suzuki’s motorcycle business grew, and in 1959 it introduced a lightweight van. The van’s success encouraged Suzuki to develop lightweight cars and trucks.
Although Tutmarc's fiddle marked the dawn of the electric bass guitar, it took about twenty years for the idea to take hold, and be developed by Leo Fender before it became a popular instrument. Fender created the Precision Bass, and took the rough form of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup. With four steel strings the instrument became popular with many well known bands and groups of the fifties, and it was at this point that the bass guitar became popular worldwide. Following closely behind Fender was Gibson, whose bass guitars were generally smaller then fender’s, and incorporated a humbucker pickup rather than the single coils. Gibson’s most famous creation was the Thunderbird with a 34 inch scale, and duel humbucking pickups located halfway between the neck of the guitar and the bridge – a more usual position.
Materials * (1) Fender Stratocaster Maple Neck Electric Guitar * (1) Plastic guitar pick * (1) KORG GA-1 Electric guitar tuner * A warm, room temperature environment to house the guitar during the experiment (In my experiment, I used my 73 degree Fahrenheit home) * A colder environment to house the guitar during the experiment (In my experiment I used my 50-40 degree Fahrenheit porch, I could not get the exact temperature each trial) * Knowledge of how to use an electronic tuner, as well as a couple of different songs on guitar in standard tuning (for my experiment I used “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses) Experimental Setup 1. Gather materials needed for the experiment (as listed above). 2. Tune the Fender Stratocaster listed above with the electric guitar tuner listed above to standard tuning (EADGBe). Repeat this process until the guitar is in tune when all six strings are played simultaneously.
History In 1900, Henry Ford built his third vehicle – a truck. The first factory-assembled state of the art Ford pickup debuted, with a price tag of $281. The truck was outfitted with a cargo box, an adjustable tailgate, four stake pockets and heavy duty rear springs. All were highly innovative industry leading features. Innovation and improvement of existing features was and continues to be one of the hallmarks of the pickup market.
There are two types of acoustic guitar: steel-string and classical. Classical guitars have a wider neck and use nylon strings. Steel-strings have a metallic sound that is a distinctive component of a wide range of popular music styles. Both types of guitar can be played using a plectrum (pick) or finger-style. The steel-string acoustic is sometimes referred to as a flat top.