What is Baritone Guitar?
A Baritone Guitar is a [[musical instrument]] used for genres like [[funk]], metal, [[Pop music|pop]], and a huge range of other [[Genre|genres]] and styles. The '''baritone guitar''' was initially a [[Germany|German]] [[acoustic guitar]] innovation over 100 years ago. When adapted for the early [[electric guitar]] market of the 1950s and 60s by manufacturers such as [[Fender]] and [[Danelectro]], the instrument found its first popular footing in the hands of rockabilly forefather [[Duane Eddy]]. From that point, the scene expanded into 60s [[surf rock]], the popular sounds of [[Glen Campbell]] and other [[country music]] contemporaries, and perhaps even more iconically, the spaghetti western soundtracks of [[Ennio Morricone]]. In the past 20 years, there has been a marked increase in baritone electric guitar use and interest. The baritone guitar is often used by musicians of all stylistic backgrounds looking to replace or augment sounds produced by more conventional instruments or simply to add a new sound that is both familiar and strikingly fresh. In the early days of the electric baritone guitar, [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] names like Duane Eddy, and Glen Campbell put the instrument on the map in a big way along with the even lower-tuned Fender Bass VI. Furthering the signature sound of 1960s popular music, the [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] founder and revered [[songwriter]]/[[Record producer|producer]] [[Brian Wilson]] often used a baritone to [[Arrangement (music)|arrange]] and write songs, finding a range of notes and tones that were otherwise unavailable to [[List of guitarists|guitarists]]. More recently, baritone guitars have been found in the hands of metal aficionados [[James Hetfield]] of [[Metallica]], [[Brian welch|Brian ‘Head' Welch]] of [[Korn]], [[John Petrucci]] of [[Dream Theater]], Pat O'Brian of [[Cannibal Corpse]], and countless others. On another side of the rock spectrum, [[Eddie Van Halen]], [[Dave Matthews]], and [[Robert Smith]] have used the baritone frequently for recordin