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Photo: Martin Möller, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.Think you know the world's most popular six-string instrument? Test your knowledge on the history, design, and legendary stories behind the guitar!
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Nigel Tufnel showcases his custom Marshall amplifiers with knobs labeled up to 11, reasoning that it is 'one louder' than 10. The joke became so famous that 'up to eleven' entered dictionaries to mean pushing something to its absolute limit.
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Since 1996, the Air Guitar World Championships have been held annually in Oulu, Finland. The quirky event promotes world peace, operating under the ideology that 'wars would end if everyone played the air guitar.'
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Introduced in 1958 alongside the Explorer, the Flying V was way ahead of its time and sold poorly, leading Gibson to discontinue it in 1959. It wasn't until heavy rock guitarists embraced its aggressive look in the late 1960s that it became a legend.
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In 1951, Gretsch sent a telegram to Fender pointing out they already sold a drum set called 'Broadkaster.' To avoid a lawsuit, Fender snipped the name off their decals, creating the famous 'No-caster' transition models before choosing 'Telecaster.'
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Spanish luthier Antonio de Torres Jurado revolutionized guitar design in the mid-1800s. By increasing the body size, thinning the soundboard, and perfecting fan bracing, he created the template for almost all classical guitars made today.
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Standard guitar frets are made from 'nickel-silver' (or German silver), which actually contains no silver at all but is an alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc. This blend offers the perfect balance of durability and malleability for shaping.
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Bridge pins do not actually pinch the strings to hold them; instead, they wedge the ball-end of the string against the guitar's bridge plate inside the body. The upward pull of the string actually locks the pin tighter in place.
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Les Paul built 'The Log' around a solid four-by-four wooden post, about 10 by 10 centimetres, to stop the howling feedback of hollow guitars. He then attached the two halves of a sawn-apart Epiphone hollow-body guitar to the sides, just so it would look like a normal instrument to audiences.
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While tuning in all perfect fourths would make scale patterns perfectly symmetrical, introducing a major third between the G and B strings allows players to easily press down full, six-string chords using standard human hand shapes.
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Willie Nelson's beloved 'Trigger' is a Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar. Over decades of intense flatpicking, Willie has worn a massive second hole right through the soundboard, but he refuses to play any other instrument.
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