I really like the guitar, I used to play it when I was in college, Have you tried playing the guitar?
no, i'm more a piano person but my husband has an accoustic six strings guitar
A six string guitar is what I had in college actually, I remember playing many songs for my room-mates, I'm curious who makes the majority of guitars in the US anyways? 
i think Gibson company makes guitars. The modern guitar was preceeded by the gittern, the vihuela and the four course guitar
Those sounds like interesting instruments, What is a gittern?, I never heard of it
gittern was a relatively small gut strung round backed instrument 
Oh ok, it sounds very traditional. I wonder what countries it was popular in. Do you know?
Gittern
The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round-backed instrument that first appears in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually depicted played with a quill plectrum, as we can see clearly beginning in manuscript illuminations from the thirteenth century.  
It was also called the guiterna in Spain, guiterne or guiterre in France, the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany. A popular instrument with court musicians, minstrels, and amateurs
drama department headed by Gerald Dyer. For his bar mitzvah, he received a guitar and taught himself to play.
He went on to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts as a music major. He originally entered as a guitar major, "When I got to college I kind of transferred to the piano. I transferred what I knew on the guitar to the piano. But when I was playing the guitar I was always writing my own songs — and singing a few of — I only had one book of