Music knows no bounds. She is worshiped by generations and ages. The great minds of humanity bow their heads before her. And a variety of musical instruments disturb the peace and sleep of true connoisseurs. A delightful musical instrument with various interpretations is the guitar. And the desire to learn how to play it at least once appeared in the human mind. In most cases, this remained only a desire. Some people made attempts to learn guitar art and even studied the structure of the guitar, but when they realized the truth that nothing is simple and easy, they left the idea. And only a few percent of people who are truly eager to master this enchanting instrument do not stop at nothing in order to combine their body and soul with the music of guitar strings.
The very first wisdom and the very first lesson in mastering the art of playing this melodic instrument captivating millions of hearts is the study of its constituent elements, or the construction of a guitar. This musical instrument has a large number of variations, starting with a simple, acoustic version, to two-, three-, and even four-finger instruments. Beginners, as a rule, study the structure of an
acoustic guitar. This six-stringed apparatus, generating enchanting sounds, is the best tool for learning, since support of 3.5 octaves makes it possible to play absolutely any melody on it.
The guitar consists of two main parts:
1. Case.
2. Vulture.
Sometimes in a separate main part an element of the neck - the head of the guitar - is singled out.
Consider the device of the guitar, in the literal sense, from the head. This part includes the entire ring mechanism - the so-called system for adjusting the pitch of the strings. The strings are attached to the rollers, or, as they are also called, lamb. By rotating the spike, the rollers stretch the strings and give the sound the necessary pitch.
Immediately after the head is the upper nut - a thin plate that fixes the strings in the upper part of the neck. Similar to the top, throughout the fretboard, you can see the frets that separate the frets of the guitar.
A fret is a small gap, which serves to obtain the necessary note by clamping guitar strings on it. The position of the neck, as well as the height of the strings above it, can be adjusted using an anchor rod, or an anchor located inside the neck.
From the pegs, passing parallel to each other along the upper nut and frets, the strings go to the stand on which the lower nut is attached. The stand is mounted on the tool body. Although one can argue here: the device of the guitar is such that first the strings pass through the stand, and then are fixed with pegs.
The neck is attached to the body of the guitar with the heel. The “front” part of the guitar body is called the top deck, and the back is called the back deck.
The top deck has a round hole called a cavity or socket.
The device of the guitar is not complicated and everyone will figure it out. What causes difficulties for beginners is the tuning of the sound of the instrument. The guitar tuner is the most popular guitar tuning device . In addition, this musical mechanism can be tuned using a tuning fork, according to the notes of the piano, and the reception of a flag-fly. The latter is the most difficult, but also the most correct. Also on the Internet you can find a lot of programs that allow you to configure the tool online.