Acoustic guitar

A stringed instrument whose vibrating strings drive a hollow resonant body to produce sound without requiring electronic amplification.

Steel-string acoustic guitar: An acoustic guitar fitted with steel strings, typically producing a bright, projecting tone. Its steel strings and reinforced body create the familiar loud, bright acoustic sound.
String instrument: A musical instrument that produces sound through the vibration of strings. The acoustic guitar is one member of this broad instrument family.
Electric guitar: A guitar whose pickups convert string vibration into an electrical signal for amplification. Unlike an acoustic guitar, it depends on electronic amplification for most of its sound.
Fingerstyle guitar: A guitar technique in which strings are plucked directly with the fingers or fingernails. It lets one guitarist combine melody, bass, and accompaniment on acoustic strings.
Classical guitar history: The development of the modern classical guitar and its musical traditions. The classical guitar is a major branch of the acoustic guitar’s history.
Classical guitar: An acoustic guitar traditionally fitted with nylon strings and a wider neck. Its nylon strings produce a softer tone and vibrate differently from steel strings.
Musical tuning: The assignment of pitches to notes or to the strings of an instrument. Tuning sets the pitches of the guitar’s open strings.
Electro-acoustic guitar: An acoustic guitar fitted with a pickup or microphone for amplified performance. It retains an acoustic body while adding an electronic output.
Flatpicking: A guitar technique using a plectrum to play individual notes and strummed chords. It is a defining approach to acoustic lead playing in bluegrass.
Antonio de Torres Jurado: A nineteenth-century Spanish luthier whose designs established the modern classical guitar’s proportions. His larger body and structural innovations shaped later acoustic guitar design.

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