Now that I've examined the guitar in many modern forms of media, I wanted to learn a little more about its history. I scoured the internet for the best article on the history of guitar. Here's the most interesting one I could find:
http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/BriefHistory.html
One of the most interesting facts that I gathered from this article is that the origin of the guitar is still completely unknown, but it is guessed that it dates back almost 4,000 years! They even recovered a 3,500 year-old guitar, which was buried with the Egyptian singer Har-Mose. The guitar was most likely fashioned after the lute, which is slightly different in appearance.
The Renaissance is really where we begin to see the four string guitar evolve. The number of strings, as well as the number of frets on the guitar began to multiply into what we now recognize as the six string 12 fret guitar played today.
Interested in what the evolution of guitars looked like? Click Here
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