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Join GroupThe electric guitar was invented and became the go-to instrument for jazz and blues players, including Les Paul, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and T-Bone Walker. Their popularity and influence led directly to the guitar gods of the more-modern era: Jimi Hendrix, Andrés Segovia and Bonnie Raitt, to name a few.
Orville Gibson perfected a more durable mandolin-style guitar and a so-called "archtop" design, and began selling instruments out of his Kalamazoo, Michigan, workshop. Gibson's instruments played louder than competitors' guitars, and his breakthrough designs revolutionized music-making in the U.S.
The five-string "Baroque guitar," which had been played for centuries, made way for the modern six-string classical guitar, standardized and perfected by the Spaniard Antonio de Torres Jurado.
By the tail end of the Middle Ages, people living in Europe were playing guitar-like instruments such as the "vihuela de mano" and the "guitarra morisca."
Guitar-like instruments have been played for thousands of years, but nobody's really sure when — and from where — the modern variant began to take shape. Was it in Europe or the Middle East? Regardless, scholars generally agree that instruments called "guitars" were mentioned in literature at least as far back as the 13th century.
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