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Guitar: Popular Musical Instrument Among All Age Groups

Shikha Saxena
4 min readMay 3, 2022

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Musical Instrument with multistring to create magic

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Guitar finds a special place in heart of music lovers! It is one of the most played stringed musical instrument in use and find its place in all kind of popular music genres: Country, Rock and Flamenco. Guitar: Popular Musical Instrument Among All Age Groups is a multistring magical instrument with a history since 1500 century. Since then it transformed gradually into its new avatar that we see today. Electrical guitar is also one of the mutation of the original instrument! Music lovers of all age groups are mesmerized by guitar’s musical notes as they hear the strumming!

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What is Guitar?

Guitar made its way from Rome to Egypt to Europe. Guitar derives its name from Spanish term Guitarra Latina and a late medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings. It also seems likely that term was derived from Latin word “Cithara” and a Sanskrit/Hindi word “Tara” which means “String”. Other instruments of the same species faous in eastern India are “Ektara” = One String and ‘Duitara” = Two string musical instruments. Guitar which are used as rhythm or lead instruments are…

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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