Portal:Guitar
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Welcome to Wikipedia's portal for Guitar. The guitar is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. Guitars are used in a wide variety of musical styles, and are also widely known as a solo classical instrument. They are most recognized in popular culture as the primary instrument in blues and rock music. The guitar usually has six strings, but 5, 7, 8, 10 and 12-string instruments also exist; these are used mosty in classical and folk music. |
Subcategories of Guitar:
Acoustic guitars - Guitar amplifier manufacturers - Artists who use seven-string guitars - Classical guitar - Compositions for guitar - Electric bass guitars - Electric guitars - Guitar parts and accessories - Guitar performance techniques - Guitarists - Guitar magazines - Guitar manufacturers - Guitar-related software - Guitar tunings - Guitar-related websites - Composers for classical guitar
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| Physics of the guitar | Vibrating string | Physics of the guitar |
| Miscellaneous | List of guitar-related topics |
John Williams (born 24 April 1941) is one of the world's best-known classical guitarists. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Williams was taught initially by his father Len Williams. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under "The Maestro", Andrés Segovia. Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying piano because the school did not have a guitar department at the time. Upon graduation, he was offered the opportunity to create such a department. Being such a lover of the instrument, he seized the opportunity and ran it for the first two years. Williams has maintained links with the College (and with the Northern College in Manchester) ever since.
Portal:Guitar/Anniversaries/December
...that Jimi Hendrix has a son who is also a musician?
...that the bass player Jaco Pastorius was killed by a night club bouncer, after being refused entry to a Santana concert?
...that Igor Stravinsky wanted to compose a piece for Andrés Segovia but that Segovia told him that he will never play it?
Biography
- Classical Guitarists:
François Campion - Antoine Carré - Nicolas Desrosiers - Giovanni Paolo Foscarini - Henri Grenerin - Giovanni Battista Granata - Louis Jourdan de La Salle - Girolamo Montesardo - Santiago de Murcia - Ida Presti - Regino Sainz de la Maza - Thomas Müller-Pering - Hubert Käppel
- Composers:
Girolamo Arrigo - Vicente Asencio - Joanna Bailie - Robert Beaser - Juan Blanco - Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz - José Broca - Alois Bröder - Jarmil Burghauser - Kevin Callahan - Abel Carlevaro - Flores Chaviano - Joaquín Clerch - Terence Croucher - Jonathan Dawe - Colin Downs - Dimitris Fampas - Fernando Ferrandiere - Graciane Finzi - Tom Flaherty - François de Fossa - Anton García Abril - Hans Gefors - Stephen Goss - Bryn Harrison - Anders Hillborg - Kent Olofsson - Evan Hirschelman - Oliver Hunt - Stephen Jaffe - Juho Kangas - Francis Kleynjans - Anđelko Klobučar - Ian Krouse - Annette Kruisbrink - Karl-Wieland Kurz - John Anthony Lennon - Antoine de l'Hoyer - Luigi Legnani - Jyrki Linjama - Arne Löthman - Ursula Mamlok - Joan Manén - Antonio Jiménez Manjón - Robert Martin (composer) ǀ Robert Martin - Wenzeslaus Matiegka - Josep Maria Mestres-Quadreny - Alasdair Nicholson - Tage Nielsen - Åke Parmerud - Carlos Pedrell - Hannu Pohjannoro - Maximo Diego Pujol - Veli-Matti Puumala - Igor Rekhin - Lew Richmond - Carlos Rafael Rivera - Teresa de Rogatis - Poul Rovsing-Olsen - Ronald Roxbury - Antonio Ruiz-Pipó - Eduardo Sainz de la Maza - Matilde Salvador - Robert Sierra - Johan Söderqvist - Michael Starobin - Colin Tommis - Flemming Weis - John R. Williamson - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti
| Yo tengo una tía que toca la guitarra. |
Translation: I have an aunt that plays the guitar.
Interpretation: That was completely irrelevant.
Portal:Guitar/Featured picture/December, 2006
- Classical guitar
June 10, 2006 - The Mexican classical guitarist Pablo Garibay won Falletta International Guitar Concert Competition. This international event was organized by WNED and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
June 7, 2006 - The classical composer Takahiro Sakuma (b. 30/6/1972) won the 1st price in the VII. International Composition Competition "Michele Pittaluga" with "Suite alla Sonatina in Direzione meridionale" for Guitar and Violin.
June 1st, 2006 - The classical guitarist Carlos Pérez won the III. International Joaquín Rodrigo Competition witch took place in Madrid, Spain.
- Steel-stringed guitar
June 21st, 2006 – The guitarist Jef Sarver set out to break the world record for the longest guitar solo on June 21, 2006. The last record is 43 hours.
- Electric guitar
June 22nd, 2006 - The rock guitarist and Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood has reportedly been admitted in rehab. It happen after the other Rolling Stones’s guitarist Keith Richards suffered injuries after he fell out of a tree in Fiji.
- Bass guitar
June 21st, 2006 – The rock bass guitarist Andy Nicholson, bassist of the band Arctic Monkeys, has parted ways with the band due to 'burnout' and 'fatigue' following their 'intensive touring'.
- Miscellaneous
June 21st, 2006 – The Walton's Guitar Festival of Ireland will take place in Dublin, from Monday, the 3rd to Sunday, the 9th of July.
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