Talk:Guitar

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Working outline

 * History
 * Characteristics
 * Sound
 * Range
 * Acoustics
 * Types
 * Electric
 * Acoustic
 * Construction
 * Materials and finishes
 * Handedness
 * Components
 * Head (headstock, nut, tuning mechanisms)
 * Neck (fingerboard, frets, heel, inlays)
 * Body
 * Pickups and electronics
 * Tuning
 * Accessories
 * Usage and repertoire
 * Popular music
 * Classical music
 * Other genres
 * See also
 * Notes
 * References
 * Bibliography
 * External links

Leaving this here to work on before beginning work on the article. -- Laser brain  (talk)  00:03, 18 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Can I get your opinion on the above outline? I plan to remove some of the minor types of guitars that currently have their own sections and include a broad "other types" list so readers can explore further. I'm interested in your opinion as well, . I like how clarinet is organized so I took a few pages from your book. -- Laser brain  (talk)  11:51, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

I wonder why currently Classic guitar is not included into Acoustic guitar section. It is definitely a subtype of these, not a separate class. Klomb (talk) 09:23, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 February 2017
165.228.41.46 (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2017 (UTC) JAYDEN IS A GIRL NAME, AS EVE NAMED HER DAUGHTER'S SON'S DOG'S NEIGHBOURS' SISTER NAMED HER DAUGHTER JAYDEN WHILST HER COUSIN WAS CALLED JADEN, A BOY'S NAME. Therefore the equation reffering to Q10 on pg 3 is yXy + pXp =7.
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format.  JTP (talk • contribs) 22:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Fretwraps
Please add fretwraps to the accessories section Lokeshvt (talk) 09:54, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Double Sided Guitar
Double Sided Guitars In 2006, the USPTO (United States Patents & Trademark Office) issued a 20 year Utility Patent for a new type of guitar- the double sided guitar invented by Isola Oluwabusuyi of California. The invention had 11 claims and basically covered every guitar that can be played on 2 different sides. The guitar did not get to the market until 2009 and has since been used by artists in almost all 50 states and in several countries outside the US. In 2015, the first totally acoustic version was released by Busuyi Guitars and in 2017, another acoustic version was released. In total, there are more than 20 versions of this guitar at the time of writing this article. They mostly exist as 4 string bass and 6 string lead on single neck, and double neck guitars. Some images are attached to this article for reference. Busuyi guitar (talk) 01:28, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Nothing on Tablature ?
--Jerome Potts (talk) 01:05, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

its also for flying into the clouds — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:580:C103:F690:75AE:F777:6287:4DC8 (talk) 00:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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Are guitars always strummed/plucked by the right hand? or is it the dominant hand?
"It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, thumb or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting (or pressing against the frets) the strings with the fingers of the left hand. " From the introduction. I don't play guitars but I'm also not left-handed. Can someone clarify this question and perhaps make a relevant edit if required? Princeton wu (talk) 04:49, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

the strutcture and sound of the guitar
The first thing you see when you look at a guitar is the biggest part which is the body. It is a wooden hollow box in which there is circular hole called the sound hole. Its main purpose is to project the sound. On the body behind the sound hole there is a wood peace called the bridge. The bridge is to hold the strings from one end of the guitar to the other. After the body there is a long fretted board in which is called the neck. On the entire neck there are metal pieces dividing the board, the space in between each of these metal pieces is the fret. On the end of the neck there a piece of plastic which is called the nut. The nut has 6 engravings for each string. After the neck there is the head. The head has pegs coming up from it and tuners coming from the sides of it. The pegs coming up from it have the strings looped around it whereas the tuners are to wind and unwind the strings. All along the guitar there are a total of 6 strings. The bridge and the pegs are what hold the strings along the guitar. The strings are: the first string as E4, the second string as B3, the third string as G3, the fourth string as D3, the fifth string as A2 and the sixth string which is E2. The way to make a sound on the guitar is to pluck or glide a pick or your thumb nail over the strings of the guitar where the sound hole is. Because there is tension on the strings, when it is plucked or glided on vibration causes a sound to be produced. However if you put your finger on a fret of a string the tension is now from the bridge to your finger so a different sound is produced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:4E9F:F945:800B:90B7:5AB9:2533 (talk) 21:55, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

History section ends abruptly
The history section seems to end with the most direct ancestor of the guitar losing popularity and dying out. It's very confusing. Seems to me the history section should at least cover the time period through the guitar having six individual strings (not courses) and preferably through the invention of the electric guitar. --Sm5574 (talk) 14:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's just that no one has taken the time to write it. I worked on this article a lot a couple years ago but never got that far. -- Laser brain  (talk)  14:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 November 2018
It seems two edits made in march 2017 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guitar&oldid=770915733 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guitar&direction=next&oldid=771059640 ) caused wrong listing of guitar types. As a result, level of classic guitar was raised to the same as for acoustic and electric guitars. Please lower the level of classic guitar in section 2.2. thus making it non-numbered sub-type.

Change '===Classical guitars===' to '====Classical guitars===='

Klomb (talk) 21:06, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done DannyS712 (talk) 22:54, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Pickups, and general tidying
I've done a little tidying on the pickups section and added a reference for the Roland system. Someone needs to add a reference for Variax. However, in looking at this, I notice there are a lot of stylistic problems with this article, which goes rapidly from the too technical to the over-explained.Martin Turner (talk) 23:38, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Etymology "guitar"
Wiktionary says that "kithara" (ancestral to "guitar") is not related to Persian/Hindi "sitar".24.108.56.72 (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Guitar for deletion
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History Section info has problems.
"The guitars strings were tuned in unison, so, in other words, it was tuned by placing a finger on the second fret of the thinnest string and tuning the guitar [10] bottom to top. The strings were a whole octave apart from one another, which is the reason for the different method of tuning."

This is not how to tune octave strings.

Unison is unison at the zero fret/nut or even at the twelfth fret for the pair. Octave is at the twelfth fret for the bottom, low, thick string and its course pair top, high, thin string. Only the bottom, low one course or two courses out of four or five strings were alternatively tuned as octaves. Thomasvandyke (talk) 04:18, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Left Handed Nonsense
This is tosh: ''Left-handed players sometimes choose an opposite-handed (mirror) instrument, although some play in a standard-handed manner, others play a standard-handed guitar reversed, and still others (for example Jimi Hendrix) played a standard-handed guitar strung in reverse. This last configuration differs from a true opposite handed guitar in that the saddle is normally angled in such a way that the bass strings are slightly longer than the treble strings to improve intonation. Reversing the strings, therefore, reverses the relative orientation of the saddle, adversely affecting intonation, although in Hendrix's case, this is believed to have been an important element in his unique sound. '' Most commonly, Hendrix played a Stratocaster, the bridge of which is symmetrical so it's a trivial exercise to set the intonation correctly whether it is strung fro left or right handed use. Yes he played other guitars from time to time, but most guitars with adjustable bridges can be correctly intonated for reverse stringing, for example with a Gibson Tune-O-Matic you just reverse some of the bridge pieces. Stub Mandrel (talk) 22:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * True—an acoustic guitar would be much harder to intonate for this, of course. That section is uncited; some of it should be cut. Eman  235 / talk  05:15, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, this needed help. (see my comment below) I edited the section, added 2 refs, checked on the Hendrix part, found and added a reference. Hendrix said he reversed the strings on his first guitar and said he "found out it was way out of tune when I'd finished". He had to go to a music store to figure it out.Eagledj (talk) 00:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Through The Looking Glass Guitar of Kei Nakano, which has been played by him since 2015. This new tuning is like a mirror to all kinds of string instruments including guitar. Also it can adapt to any other tunings of guitar. If tuned to usual conventional guitar for the right handed person, it is able to use for lefty guitar in general, and vice versa.

This article needs help
It is unnerving to see so much unsourced content in this article. Some of it is incoherent and excessively arcane; for example, "The ratio of the spacing of two consecutive frets is $$\sqrt[12]{2}$$ (twelfth root of two)." I not just complaining and adding tags--- I've added some referenced content and am trying to help. The topic is difficult because it so broad. As it stands, this article needs experienced editors to pitch in to save it becausit it is a Level 4 "Vital article". Eagledj (talk) 00:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Bandola named as Deleuze - Guatari
These names correspond to two contemporary philosophers. It looks like someone made a joke here, not based on factual information. Notice these two persons are NOT named in the Bandola article. 200.126.208.221 (talk) 00:33, 21 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Article locked anyway lol 172.56.240.21 (talk) 07:21, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Typo
In the second paragraph of the history section the word “similar” is spelled as “smiliar.” 79.160.184.45 (talk) 18:42, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Fixed, a bit more than three months later... Just plain Bill (talk) 23:20, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

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Definition of guitar
'The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings.' Does this means that a 12 string guitar is a misnomer? Grandma Roses (talk) 23:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * What, if anything, does typically mean to you? —Tamfang (talk) 09:48, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Add citation to section - Semi-protected edit request on 20 September 2023
Add source or citation after text:

Inlays are visual elements set into the exterior surface of a guitar, both for decoration and artistic purposes and, in the case of the markings on the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th fret (and in higher octaves)

https://www.guitarbased.com/what-are-the-dots-on-a-guitar-fretboard-for/ Jhonvh12 (talk) 02:46, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Lightoil (talk) 07:21, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2024 (typo)
In the first paragraph of the section Types the word electronic is misspelled as eletronic.

Request: please change eletronic to electronic. shelevenspace (talk) 22:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks. Jamedeus (talk) 22:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)