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Guitar

    Guitars are music instrument made form woods. Human invented it in around 16^th and 17^th century. It used to play music for entertainment and amusement. Until today, guitar is still stand as a cheap, famous, and easy to play instrument.

     Guitars are made from wood logs. A guitar crafter is called luthier. Before the industry revolution era, human crafted guitars manually by hand. At that time, guitars are not as cheap as today.

     After 20^th century, especially after industrial revolution era, everything is made by machines. No exception for guitars. As today we see, guitars made and crafted in factories. They are created massively, faster, and cheaper than the handmade guitars.

    Related to industrialization effects, guitars are now very popular. Today the guitars are cheaper and easier to get. More people play music. Then, music becomes commodity. Today, entertainment – music in this case – plays a significant role in economic cycle.

     More specialized to the instrument, guitar – in general - has several parts. The main part is the body. The body holds the bridge. Bridge is the part where all the 6 strings tied. Next, there is a hole on the guitar’s body. The hole is called sound hole. The guitar sounds come from this hole. above the body, we can see the guitar’s neck. The neck makes the guitar player able to play the notations by holding or pressing the strings. After the neck there is another part called head. On the head we can see several little pieces attached. They are called tuning keys. Like the name, tuning keys are functioned to adjust the strings tensions, so the player will able to play right notations.

originally written by Bertold Gerry