Guitar makes music. by Zuzana Valkova

Music is everywhere around you. When you are walking down the street, commuting to school or work, enjoying your drink with your friends. We are lucky that we live in these modern days, because now we can always have our music with us. I can not imagine to go somewhere without my earphones in my ears, and without my favourite artists in the pocket. But what makes music? Definitely talented people make it, but what they really need, are musical instruments. Probably the most famous instrument is guitar. I know many people who can play it, but I don't know many facts about the instrument. About 5000 years ago, guitar was noticed for the first time. It was in ancient China and India. A little bit later guitar also got to ancient Europe. There were many names for this instrument before guitar; it was kithara, cithara, sitar or guitarra. Guitars looked totally different, almost in every country had a different shape, and it didn't always have six strings, like usually have guitars now. Today they look similar. Of course, that people are trying to create something different, new. But at least we know, that it is a guitar at first sight. It can have six or more strings, sometimes even twelve. Almost everyone knows that we divide guitars into two big groups. Acoustic and electric guitars. The difference is, that acoustic guitar is wooden and it uses only vibration of strings through the body. Electric guitar converts vibrations to electrical signal, and you can hear it through amplifier.

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by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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