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?
Well my personal favorite is Acoustic guitars.  The transmit sound by vibrating the strings and do not use electronic amps
That's what I used to have. I agree with you - they're my favorite, too. What else do you know about guitars? You obviously know more than me!
The guitar is actually considered a type of chordophone, only it is distringuished by its different construction
Hmm. I didn't know there was much difference. Interesting. What is the construction difference?
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
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,