Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

Jefferson had an intricate and fast style of guitar playing and a particularly high-pitched voice.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

His first guitar had a nail for a nut and was so bowed that only the first few frets could be used.

He later purchased a semi-acoustic electric guitar and amp, but he had to travel many miles to find an electrical outlet since his home had no electricity.

By age 16 he had bought his first guitar ( a Harmony acoustic archtop with a sunburst finish ) and begun making contacts in the music business, becoming friends with folk singer Erik Darling, a latter-day member of the Weavers.

The need for the amplified guitar became apparent during the big band era as orchestras increased in size, particularly when guitars had to compete with large brass sections.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

By the 16th century the vihuela's construction had more in common with the modern guitar, with its curved one-piece ribs, than with the viols, and more like a larger version of the contemporary four-course guitars.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

In the hands of Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow, who had absorbed the language of bebop, the guitar began to be seen as a “ serious ” jazz instrument.

In the documentary he explained that while in school he noticed a pupil who had brought a guitar to school and had been " surrounded by chicks ".

His mother had a guitar, which he then took to school, even though he could not play, and was himself surrounded by girls: " In those days just having a guitar was enough ... that was it ".

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

However, other styles of guitar have been introduced and enjoy moderate popularity, generally in more specific genres:

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

Luthiers have been experimenting with redesigning the acoustic guitar for these players.

"' Po Boy ', scored for guitar with lounge chord jazz patterns, ' almost sounds as if it could have been recorded around 1920 ," says Riley.

Albéniz and Granados were central to this movement ; their evocation of the guitar was so successful that their compositions have been absorbed into standard guitar repertoire.

Stories have been told about the very young Chet who, when a friend or relative would come to visit, and if that person played a guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so very close to the instrument that it became difficult for that person to play.

With numerous people experimenting with electrical instruments in the 1920s and early 1930s, there are many claimants to have been the first to invent an electric guitar.

The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, have been applied to a wide variety of cordophones since ancient times and as such is the cause of confusion.

The Spanish vihuela or ( in Italian ) "", a guitar-like instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries, is widely considered to have been a seminal influence in the development of the guitar.

The original purpose of the resonator was to produce a very loud sound ; this purpose has been largely superseded by electrical amplification, but the resonator guitar is still played because of its distinctive tone.

While music is an art form in itself, playing an instrument such as the guitar has long been a popular subject for painters.

Most Ibanez guitars were made for Hoshino Gakki by the FujiGen guitar factory in Japan up until the mid-to-late 1980s and from then on Ibanez guitars have also been made in other Asian countries such as Korea, China and Indonesia.

However, many of his works have been transcribed by Miguel Llobet and others for guitar, and many of his pieces such as Asturias ( Leyenda ), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Cordoba, Cataluña, and the Tango in D are amongst the most important pieces for classical guitar.

Selections from Iberia have rarely been attempted on solo guitar but have been very effectively performed by guitar ensembles, such as the performance by John Williams and Julian Bream of Iberia's opening " Evocation.

Because he'd been sitting in my house with my acoustic guitar, writing these songs like ' I Don't Care ', fucking up my guitar, and suddenly he's this guy on stage who you can't take your eyes off of.

This approach has been seen as exemplified in the fourth album, particularly on " Stairway to Heaven ", which begins with acoustic guitar and recorder and ends with drums and heavy electric sounds.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has made scatting a part of many of the band's recordings and live shows, sometimes performing extended scat solos which work to complement extend guitar solos, act as solos themselves, even to replace forgotten lyrics.

With the general upset surrounding Webb's passing, David Puttick, an artist and composer, had a large part in the composition behind the songs " Auguststrasse 18 " and " Limited Excess ", by donating two of his own compositions to be used as backing tracks for the guitar duo, but was ( erroneously ) never credited. After the release of " Sounds Of St Lucia ", which featured a live version of " Auguststrasse 18 " in 2003, five years after Nick Webb's untimely death, the matter of credits to David Puttick had still been forgotten.

In his review, he wrote of the album " While it's true that Walsh established himself as a late -' 60s / early -' 70s guitar hero on the Gang's more boogie-oriented rock numbers, it's Walsh's love of lushly textured production and spacy, open-ended songs featuring both acoustic and electric guitars that is showcased here on this wildly adventurous and forgotten unqualified masterpiece ... Walsh tips the scales one more time back to the mysterious in the acoustic guitar and harmonica moment " Comin ' Down.

* Tony Garnier – bass guitar

John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar.

" Rescued by Hendrix's press officer, Tony Garland, it was his nephew who came forward in 2007 and put the guitar up for auction.

Tony McManus: reinventing the guitar.

Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to move away from the guitar & accordion ( or sax ) plus backing tracks on tape nature of their live show, and recruited a supporting band that consisted of live musicians ( Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg ).

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

* Tony Thorpe ( born Anthony John Thorpe, 20 July 1945, St Bartholomew Hospital, Smithfields, London )-lead guitar, vocals

Tony Rice showcased elaborate lead guitar solos, and other bands followed.

In 1969, he formed a trio, The Tony Williams Lifetime, with John McLaughlin on guitar, and Larry Young on organ.

* Secthdamon ( Odd Tony )-bass guitar ( 2006, 2007 )

Dickie returned in 1978-79 with a fresh line-up of Tony Rainier on guitar and Mike Fleck on drums.

A late 70s jazz fusion trio of John McLaughlin ( guitar ) Jaco Pastorius ( bass ) and Tony Williams ( drums ) unashamedly returned to the original concept of the power trio with their short-lived " Trio of Doom " album.

The Dunnigan brothers quit after these recordings, with Mike Dunnigan later joining Tony Alva's band The Skoundrelz to be back with Mike Ball on guitar and Bela Horvath on drums.

* Tony Levin-Chapman Stick, bass guitar, double bass ( electric upright bass )

* Tony Levin-Chapman Stick, bass guitar

* Tony Levin-Chapman Stick, bass guitar

* Tony Glidewell – guitar

Entertainment Weekly reviewer Tony Scherman stated that " Slash's playing is as flashily incendiary as ever, but the songs and arrangements recycle hard-rock cliches worthier of Ratt than of a bona fide guitar god ".

* Tony Rombola – lead guitar, backing vocals

Tony Donald quit in April, before the first Simple Minds demo tape was recorded ( he would later become Burchill's guitar technician ).

Tony Iommi's guitar style greatly influenced and defines doom metal.

Black Sabbath's music is itself stylistically rooted in blues, but with the deliberately doomy and loud guitar playing of Tony Iommi ( who often used the tritone in his playing and composition ), and the then-uncommon dark and pessimistic lyrics and atmosphere, they set the standards of early heavy metal and inspired various doom metal bands to come.

* Tony Faehse – guitar ( 1991 )

The Discipline lineup was completed by the former King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford and the New York session ace Tony Levin on bass guitar and Chapman Stick.