Dancing to the Sound of a Spanish Guitar
The Guitar stands tall in being one of the most popular and common of musical instruments in the world today, with various classes of guitars, made to produce particular sounds, defining the overall genre of a musical composition.
With origins dating back to 5000 years ago, there are various classes and types of guitars which abound musical instrument shops all over the world today. One such class would be the Spanish guitar class of guitars.
Spanish guitars bear similar appearance to other acoustic guitar types, but have specific differences, as well as different output sounds. Spanish guitars are actually no different from classical guitars. They are ideal for flamenco pieces, as well as other Latin based guitar playing, and are also ideal for classical guitar pieces. They produce softer sounds, compared to other classes of guitars.
The most common of acoustic guitars would be steel stringed guitars, with Spanish guitars or classical guitars being the next most common type of acoustic guitars. Spanish guitars are made with nylon strings, and have wider necks compared to steel stringed guitars. The nylon strings of Spanish guitars make them easy to use for plucking, while the wide necks of Spanish guitars allows for more in between string space for plucking, as well as more space for chord finger variations, and other "note making" guitar skills. Steel stringed guitars differ from Spanish guitars in the sense that they use steel strings, and have narrower necks compared with Spanish guitars.
Spanish guitars could be fitted with an electronic pick up system, allowing for them to be hooked up to an amplifier, should there be a need. This kind of Spanish guitar setup doesn't make them electric guitars, as electric guitars are altogether a different kind of guitar. Electric guitars are guitar classes which require the use of amplifiers for them to produce their specific, sound effects capable sound.
As acoustic guitars are built with their own sound resonating system, in the form of a hollow body, electric guitars don't have this capability, thus their need for an amplifier to successfully operate. There is the archtop electric guitar, which has a hollow body, but the sound it produces is rather different from the sound produced by that of a Spanish guitar, or any acoustic guitar.
Again, there are many guitar types in the world. The Spanish guitar is simply one, geared for Spanish guitar pieces, which are simply amazing pieces to dance to.
