...and the people you may know who play them:
Before venturing forth as a solo country music artist, was a member of the mid- 1990s country band called "The Ranch."
Scored his first No. 1 hit on Billboard magazine's Country Singles and Tracks chart with "But for the Grace of God" in February 2001.
Posed in the April 2001 edition of Playgirl. He became the first Kiwi to win the CMA Male vocalist of the Year in 2004. First paying non-music job: at a concert lighting company. "I feel more comfortable now with or without a guitar. It used to be much more like Linus and his security blanket, definitely."
Scored his first No. 1 hit on Billboard magazine's Country Singles and Tracks chart with "But for the Grace of God" in February 2001.
Posed in the April 2001 edition of Playgirl. He became the first Kiwi to win the CMA Male vocalist of the Year in 2004. First paying non-music job: at a concert lighting company. "I feel more comfortable now with or without a guitar. It used to be much more like Linus and his security blanket, definitely."
Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to mother jazz singer, Mattie Shaw and to father lyricist and pianist, John L. Nelson. Prince's parents separated during his youth which lead him to move back and forth. Prince had a troubled relationship with his step-father which lead him to run away from home. Prince was adopted by a family called the Andersons. Prince soon after became friends with the Anderson's son, Andre Anderson (Cymone) together along with Charles Smith they joined a band called Grand Central.
"Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I'm afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I'd get nervous?' If not, then you're cool."
"Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I'm afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I'd get nervous?' If not, then you're cool."
Taylor Swift plays the guitar.
Musica Antiqua's lute has eight courses consisting of fifteen strings. It was built by James Mackie of Minneapolis and is made of cherry with a spruce top and rosewood finger board. Audience members looking at the lute are always amazed at its light weight.
The lute is a soundbox with a neck sticking out. the strings of some are plucked, some are bowed.
the western lute evolved from the Arabic Oud.
The lute is a soundbox with a neck sticking out. the strings of some are plucked, some are bowed.
the western lute evolved from the Arabic Oud.
The Greek lyre, is a formed soundbox, to which are attached two arms that run parellel to its surface. at their outer ends, the arms are joined by a crossbar, often called a 'yoke'.
the mandolin, is a small, teardrop shaped, plucked string instrument, from the mid-1600's.
the Ukelele is a fretted four stringed instrument that loos like a four-stringed guitar. most commonly associated with Hawaii but gets its roots from Portugal.
The banjo is a plucked stringed instrument with a circular body and fretted neck. Its roots lie in the French and British colonies of Africa.
The guitar is a plucked stringed instrument played resting on the lap. the guitar began first classically Spanish, then acoustic, and now our modern day electric guitar.
During the 1830's, Mexican cattle-herders introduced the guitar to Hawaiians , who quickly incorporated it into their own music making. Dobro means 'good' in Slovak, it is a 'lap steel guitar' it has the characteristics a guitar would have except it has a decorated aluminum disc where the sound hole would normally be. A classical, or Spanish, guitar has six, generally nylon, strings, unlike the acoustic, which has steel strings.
The first commercially manufactured electric guitar was sold by Fender in 1948, followed by the Gibson in 1952. This created a competition which induced popularity.
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