The guitar has changed through the years. Apart from the number of strings, it has evolved according to the interpreter’s needs. The instrument is mainly made of wood, for example the rosewood from India or Brazil, fir or cedar from Canada, pine tree, cypress and ebony, depending on the type (classical or flamenco).
Basically, the guitar is composed of the resonance box, the neck, the bridge, the diapason the frets, the strings and the peg box. Some guitars hare got more than one diapason (up to 6 necks) or hare more than seven strings. (Whatch the guitar parts)
Box of resonance
The box of resonance is composed of the bottom, the cover and the rings. The bottom is made of rosewood whereas the cover can be made of pine tree wood, fir, cedar, or sometimes cypress. The cover has got a hole in the middle, the mouth, which is reinforced by seven thin wooden sticks, the shoots. These shoots are inside the guitar and set like a fan. The rings are two long narrow pieces made of rosewood, fire bent and attached at both upper and lower ends of the resonance box.
The neck
It is made of rosewood or cedar and it is composed of the peg box, the neck and the keel. In modern guitars, the pins are inside metal peg boxes. The peg box is in the end of the diapason. Modern peg boxes have got two vertical holes with the bones that are the small pieces around which the strings are rolled. The metallic pins are outside the peg box and are used to tune the instrument when the strings are tightened.
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