The smallest playable guitar in the world is only 10 microns long, which is about the size of a red blood cell. It has six strings, each of which is around 100 atoms wide. It can be played by focusing lasers on the strings. ¹⁾

Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Kurt Cobain were among well-known guitarists who used Fender guitars.²⁾

The creator of the business that produces Fender electric guitars, Leo Fender, never studied the instrument.³⁾

The electric lap-steel variants that were widely utilized during the Hawaiian music boom of the early 1940s are also known as “Hawaiian guitars”.⁴⁾

The pitch of Terz guitars is one third higher than that of conventional acoustic guitars.⁵⁾

The top three guitarists of all time, according to Rolling Stones magazine, are Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.⁶⁾

Currently, a guitar will run you about $600.⁷⁾

Spanish craftsmen most likely created the present guitar's precursor in the 16th century.⁸⁾

Instead of six strings, the first acoustic guitars were created with four strings hundreds of years ago.⁹⁾

The notes E-A-D-G-B-E make up a guitar's basic tuning.¹⁰⁾

Three strings of a classical guitar are made of metal, while three are nylon or silk.¹¹⁾

Kurt Cobain's acoustic-electric guitar from MTV Unplugged, which was bought for $6.01 million in 2020, was the most expensive instrument ever sold.¹²⁾

In the 19th century, classical guitar methods were developed to allow guitarists to perform works by classical composers like Bach and Mozart.¹³⁾

Only in the 20th century did composers start to produce guitar concertos that were truly serious.¹⁴⁾

The guitar has always been regarded as a part of the rhythm section in jazz music.¹⁵⁾

The guitar frequently plays three separate parts in an ensemble in contemporary popular music: lead, rhythm, and bass.¹⁶⁾

In the 1920s, electric pickups were initially incorporated to acoustic guitars.¹⁷⁾