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C You're just too good to be true. Cm7 Can't take my eyes off you. C7 You'd be like Heaven to touch. F I wanna hold you so much. Fm At long last love has arrived C And I thank God I'm alive. D You're just too good to be true. Dm Can't take my eyes off you.
Guitars can be constructed to meet the demands of both left and
right-handed players. Traditionally the dominant hand is assigned the
task of plucking or strumming the strings. For the majority of people
this entails using the right hand. This is because musical expression
(dynamics, tonal expression, color, etc.) is largely determined by the
plucking hand, while the fretting hand is assigned the lesser mechanical
task of depressing and gripping the strings. This is similar to the
convention of the violin family of instruments
where the right hand controls the bow. Left-handed players generally
choose a left-handed (mirror) instrument, although some play in a
standard right-handed manner, others play a standard right-handed guitar
reversed, and still others (for example Jimi Hendrix)
play a right-handed guitar strung in reverse. This last configuration
differs from a true left-handed guitar in that the saddle is normally
angled in such a way that the bass strings are slightly longer than the
treble strings to improve intonation.
Reversing the strings therefore reverses the relative orientation of
the saddle (negatively affecting intonation), although in Hendrix' case
this is believed to have been an important element in his unique sound.
Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of
synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having
"a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back,
most often with incurved sides".The term is used to refer to a number of related instruments that were
developed and used across Europe beginning in the 12th century and,
later, in the Americas.These instruments are descended from ones that existed in ancient central Asia and India. For this reason guitars are distantly related to modern instruments from these regions, including the tanbur, the setar, and the sitar.
The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument
displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3,300 year old stone
carving of a Hittite bard.
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick.
The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings,
generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally
constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more
recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern guitars are
made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric.
