The guitar is my favorite instrument.  It is fretted and normally has six strings
I love the guitar. I used to play classical guitar, but wasn't very good. Do you know where the guitar originated?
Actually guitars evolved from the gittern, the vihuela, and the Renaissance guitar.
So they've been around a while then. I know there are different types of guitar, but don't really know much about them. Any ideas?
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E A D G B E.
History of the classical guitar
The evolution of classical guitars began with the influences of the vihuela and gittern in the sixteenth century and ended with the modern classical guitar in the mid nineteenth century.
Renaissance stringed instruments.
While the precise lineage of the instrument is still unclear, historians believe that the guitar is the descendant of the Greek kithara, gittern, lyre, European and Middle Eastern lutes, and the Spanish vihuela. The poem "The Book of Good Love" [circa 1330] describes two early instruments,