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Venetian guitar lyre-shaped guitar
View a demonstration to understand the physics behind the working of an electric guitar
electric guitar Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster American bluegrass musicians playing mandolin (left) and guitar (right). Features of a modern acoustic guitar.
For Students
guitar summary
Quizzes
Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Gong. Closeup of a khong wong gong circle chime. Thai classical musical instrument, part of piphat ensemble. (percussion, music)
Music Quiz
A woman wearing a hanbok plays the traditional Korean musical instrument kayagum (gayageum).
Another Musical Instruments Quiz
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Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard Terborch, 1667-1668. (Baroque Art)
What’s That Sound?: 8 Intriguing Early Musical Instruments
Prince. musician Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson). rince performs during the "Pepsi Halftime Show" at Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
7 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Inventors
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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).
What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?
Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Venetian guitar
Guitar with mother-of-pearl inlays from Venice, 17th century.
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lyre-shaped guitar
A lyre-shaped guitar from the 1800s.
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electric guitar
An electric guitar.
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Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster
British blues rock musician Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster in London,...
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American bluegrass musicians playing mandolin (left) and guitar (right).
American Folklife Center/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Lyntha Eiler (digital id: afccmns lec14108)
Features of a modern acoustic guitar.
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