What is the first guitar ever made?
The first guitar came from Spain in or just before the 15th century, but was mentioned as early as 1265. It was called a "four course" guitar; it was smaller than today's guitar and had 4 pairs of strings. It's similar to an ukulele which came later.
Where was first guitar made?
Most musical instruments went through a long evolution process. (There are exceptions such as the saxophone which can really said to be invented by one person.) So it was with the guitar.You know what a modern “spanish” guitar looks like. This is a baroque guitar:The shape is a little different, and some of the strings are doubled. The soundhole is not open, and the tuners are of the violin type.This is a cittern:Again, it has characteristics in common with the guitar, but the shape is not like our modern guitar anymore. In fact, it has more in common with the mandolin. The tuning is neither in 4ths nor in 5ths….It’s hard to say where and when the first guitar-like instrument was made.
Who smashed the first guitar?
Maybe not the first but the most famous, Kurt Cobain
Why are first act guitars so bad?
First off, you shouldn't worry too much about it. If it feels all right for you, then it is all right for you. And don't care about famous brands, there are a lot of good guitars which don't carry a well known brand and the heftier price tags. That said, the guitar is an absolute beginners guitar with very cheap materials (plywood) and build quality. If your teacher has had a look at it and told you it would break down, then I would trust that judgment. If a cheap guitar breaks down while fully tuned up, you may potentially hurt yourself when bits and pieces go flying... The reason it sounds good to you is that you are used to the way it sounds. It probably has a small sound box, projecting way less volume than all wood, larger guitars; and somehow, this is what you prefer (as in used to). Normal guitars are not too big for you, they just appears to be and feels that way - again because you're used to the smaller ones. No one can force you to play anything you don't like or want. However, I would plan on getting a real guitar sooner or later. The one you have is a child's toy. It is pieces of cheap wood with strings attached to it. Fun for sure, but not a guitar. You do have guitars which have smaller boxes (these are some times referred to as parlor guitars). If you also make sure you try out guitars with a smaller scale (the scale is the length of the vibrating string), not too heavy strings, a good set up (well adjusted), and a moderate neck bulk (not too large neck), then you would adjust to that in no times flat.
Who made the first acoustic guitar?
The guitar has no specific creator. Like most other instruments, the modern guitar is the result of a slow evolutionary process from an older instrument family. In the guitars case, the evolution sprung from various plucked chordophones like the lute and the oud.However the first use of the term “Guitar” comes from somewhere in Spain around 1200AD
What came first, the violin or the guitar?
That highly depends what you classify as a 'guitar'.A Guitar is, in it's definition, a synonym for string instruments ranging from anywhere from 4 to 16 strings and, therefore, it has a huge difference in shapes and usages upon the question when it was developed in the course of history.The most known ones are obviously the "Acoustic Guitars" ranging from the 'Classical Guitar' (a Spanish invention with nylon strings), the steel string guitar in a few variations and other corpus-types all of which are based on the round back guitars that were similar than that of a lute developed on an unknown date and appearance in the middle age.However, string instruments, that can be classified as an early guitar, date back to a ~3500 year old stone carving of a Hitti playing a guitar in ancient Babylonia.So in itself saying the origin from the "modern guitars" ranges back to Babylon around 1800 BCE.The violin however, were developed about the 15th-16th century, having the first certain paintings of proof from Gaudenzio Ferrari, and were, to that time exclusively produced in Italy, along with the Cello and the similar Viola.Glory of Angels, SoronnoOne of many pictures of Ferrari, his works are exceptionally well made, and he is one of the Sculptors and Painters of the Renaissance.[Worth checking out!]The Violin, Viola and the Cello were all developed based on earlier string instruments, like the Vielle and Rebec, so the guitar and the violin have the same origins, kind of.And the Violin can only be not classified as an Guitar, or is not (rather), because it is an bowed string instrument.Coming back to your question, the guitar, as you may know now, is a synonym, ranging back to Babylonia, while the Violin is a bowed string instrument, which were, in it's complete form invented in 1556. I hope that will be sufficient, although you can learn alot more, of strings instruments, for they are one of the oldest and, arguably, the most stable kind of instruments.~Flo
Fender telecaster as a first guitar?
The first decent electric I had was a Telecaster. I had to sell it a few years later but soon replaced it. I now have two - a candy apple read, bound body, rosewood neck Tele and a sunburst Tele Thinline with a maple neck. Love them both. A Tele would be a great first guitar. The range of sounds it can produce is amazing. I would say if you go for a genuine Fender (or Squier, which is made by Fender) you should be okay. There are plenty of great "Tele-style" guitars but you need to take care. A poor Tele copy is really easy to make. You should be able to get a second hand Fender/Squier for the figure you named.
When was the guitar invented?
1852. But it wasn’t an invention - it was a refinement.Guitar-like instruments have been around for thousands of years. A museum in Istanbul has a stone carving that clearly shows a guitar-like instrument, with the hourglass body and frets. It’s 3500 years old:Over time the designs changed slightly from one century to the next, giving way to lutes, balalaikas, ouds (which used to have frets, centuries ago), chitarras and other variations. But it didn’t become the modern instrument until Antonio Torres Jurado made two changes: he altered the body dimensions a bit, which resulted in better acoustics within the body, and he made the top much thinner. A thin top vibrates more easily, and projects the sound better.But a guitar top needs to be stiff as well as responsive, and Torres solved this problem by placing thin braces on the underside of the top. They not only gave it the required stiffness, but they could be shaped to provide great tonal response.Together these changes made the guitar much louder, and made it possible to use the instrument in new ways.Every luthier copied these improvements. Many made additional contributions, but you can trace all of them back to this 1852 beginning in Sevilla, Spain.