Various types of guitar

1.     Acoustic guitar

The word ‘acoustic’ refers to creating a sound without any help of electrical equipment. However, as advancement in the technology was made to guitars, a special type of sound amplifier is now available for guitar, called ‘pick ups’. Nowadays, many have become to build guitars that have the pick-ups built in them. Acoustic guitars have thick strings in order to create sound using its own wooden body. Thicker the strings, greater the vibration produced.

The sound quality of the acoustic guitars largely depends on the way it is constructed. This is the reason that every guitar has its own unique style and characteristics.

Acoustic guitars go perfect when stroking the strings, or simply playing arpeggios. Its warm color and texture of the sound that it produces make it a versatile instrument for a variety of music ranging from jazz to Spanish tango.

There are two main braches in the acoustic guitar – Classic guitar, and the folk guitar.

Classical guitar Folk guitar

Classical or or spanish guitars have nylon strings - regular acoustics have steel strings. Classical guitars have a wider neck and a higher action. Also the bridge on the classical guitar is a lot different than the one on regukar acoustics as well as the headstock wich has the tunning pegs facing towards the bottom of the guitarand alsdo has two holes along the entire headstock with 6 cilindrical pieces where the strings are atached.

Another major difference is that the neck on the classical guitar is atached to the body on the 12th fret and tends to have less frets than regular acoustics.

Classical Spanish guitars are  really great with arpeggios – folk guitars, on the other hand, are perfect for stroking.

I will update posts about other types of guitar in near future.