- 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