guitarra
in the beginning there was void and darkness and no shape
upon the land. And then there was Light. Yeeeeeeeeah, you know
the rest... blah blah blah some dude shagged some chick and here
we are, woop-dee-FRIGGIN-doo!
ahem, well... somewhere along the line "...there was
music..." and some time after that... there was guitar! When?
Where? How?
the guitar appears to be derived from earlier instruments
like the sitar and the first appeared in spain.
the word guitar was adopted from spanish guitarra, that derived
from the Arabic word qitara wich in turn was derived from the early Greek word Kithara.
guitar means guit-, similar to Sanskrit sangeet meaning "music",
and -tar a widely attested root meaning "chord" or "string".
and then amplification and the electric guitar came, effects, modelers,
semi-acoustics etc. so now I have to deal with a lot of "stuff"
bye, hope you liked it.