According to researchers, the history of the guitar dates back to the 18-19 centuries BC. The first drawings of the instrument were discovered in Babylonia. On clay tablets, silhouettes of people playing musical instruments that look very much like guitars are depicted.
From the depths of centuries
The guitar (Spanish quitarra) is a wooden plucked string instrument with a long neck and eight-shaped resonator. The guitar is the main instrument in arranging blues, country, flamenco and rock music.
The ancient sculptural images of the original image of the guitar, which existed in the 2nd millennium BC, have been preserved. They were made from tortoise shell or pumpkin and, apparently, were covered with leather. Similar tools exist today in Iran, in the Balkans and Greece. Interestingly, at about the same time, a dutar appeared in northern India with a smoothly rounded down body and a neck with tuning rings.
The main stage in the process of tool modernization was the improvement of the resonator, which was a combination of a deck, top deck, and shells. It is believed that they invented a new building in China in the III-IV centuries BC. e. Then the craftsmen first began to make the upper deck in the form of a panel of solid wood. Different versions of the prototype of the guitar were very popular and quickly spread around the world. The simplicity of construction and ease of development made these ancient tools extremely popular both among ordinary people and among the nobility. Hieroglyphs representing instruments, similar in shape to a guitar, are also found on ancient Egyptian pyramids. Characteristically, these hieroglyphs literally translate as "good", "good", beautiful."
