Diesel mechanics nationwide earned a mean $20.63 per hour or $42,910 per year as of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A diesel mechanic could earn $61,590 a year or more in the top 10 percent of earners.
Back to Handbook A Brief History of the Guitar by Paul Guy The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument's ancestry.It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the lute, or even of the ancient Greek kithara.he oldest preserved guitar-like instrument. At 3500 years old, this is the ultimate vintage guitar! It belonged to the Egyptian singer Har-Mose. He was buried with his tanbur close to the tomb of his employer, Sen-Mut, architect to Queen Hatshepsut, who was crowned in 1503 BCE.
Guitar frets are thin strips of metal that are embedded in the neck of the guitar. They are raised up from the face of the fretboard in order to separate the neck into different semi-tonal intervals. This basically means that each fret indicates a different note. Frets are numbered just like the strings are. They are not, however, numbered by the metal pieces themselves but by the space in between the metal pieces. For instance, the first fret on the guitar is the space between the nut and the first metal piece. The fret wire is commonly made of a nickel/silver alloy, but stainless steel wire, although more expensive, produces longer lasting benefits.