I love watching people play guitar. I can't play myself, so it's fascinated to see other people with the skill to play well.
Our modern guitar was preceded by the glittern, a Renaissance guitar.
How does it differ from modern guitars?
Instead of having six strings, it was a four-course instrument.
Only four? Must have been easier to play than six! When did six strings become a thing?
That I am not sure of.
Who invented the guitar anyhow?
type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (Spanish guitar/nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic
to play, and tune his guitar, purely by ear, and picked up a delicate finger-style method of guitar picking. Hanks later stated "Most people, when they hear me play, they think it's two guitars, because I play the bass and the other strings at the same time. They say, man that's two guitars, and I say no, me, it's just me by myself. They say, don't believe you, it sounds like two guitars to me."