• The ancestors of the modern guitar can be traced back to the stringed instruments played across Central Asia and India, in ancient times.
• The oldest iconographic representation of the strumming instrument is a 3,000-year-old carving of a Hittite or ancient Anatolian bard playing the instrument.
• The instrument is believed to have descended from the cithara brought to Hispania by the Romans, in 40 CE.
• The various references to the guitar in ancient times included guitarra, gitarre, guitare, qitara, cithara, kithara, and sihtar.
• Traditionally, they were constructed with combinations of various woods. The strings were made of animal gut.
• The musical instrument has a mention in records maintained by the Moors, Viking incursions, and in traditional Norse carvings.
• Dimension standards of the modern stringed instrument were established by Antonio Torres Jurado, between 1817 and 1892.

Guitar Design Facts

• The various brands of guitars comprise PRS, Dean, Gretsch, Gibson, Ibane