Steel-String Acoustic Guitar

Steel-String Acoustic Guitar

            Guitar is a kind of musical instruments, and it’s usually played with a pick or player’s fingers. There are mainly 2 types of guitar-acoustic and bass. They can be divided in to 3 different groups according their characteristics-classical guitar, steel-string acoustic guitar and archtop guitar. However, in this blog I will describe only steel-string acoustic guitar.

            Basically, there are 4 main parts of guitar such as head, neck, strings and body. First of all, head of guitar consists of 6 knobs that are used to adjust the strings to make a fine tune. Then comes the neck which is the part that connects the head to the body. It also supports the 6 strings. As it is an acoustic type guitar, it has 6 strings; each string has differences thickness. The strings produce vibration when played. Last, the body is a bulky part which has a hole in the middle. This is the description of the four main parts of guitar.

So have you ever wondered how guitar produces a beautiful tune? 

A guitar player firstly adjusts the strings to ensure that it’s not too loose or tight because the guitar will produce an undesirable tune. After strings are adjusted, the player can start to hold and strike the strings according to the chords. These actions produce vibration which then passes through the hole in middle of the body where the vibration is amplified to produce a fine tune as the end product. Actually this fine tune is the aspect that makes guitar lovely.

            In conclusion, all the four parts are very important for producing a fine tune. In my opinion, I’m pleasure to listen to guitar song because it’s a great musical instrument.

Here is a cool video "Right Here Waiting" of Steel-String Acoustic Guitar: