Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing is the use of machines, tools, and labor in the production of electric and acoustic guitars. This phrase may be in reference to handcrafting guitars using traditional methods or assembly line production in large quantities using modern methods. Guitar manufacturing can also be broken into several categories such as body manufacturing and neck manufacturing, among others. Guitar manufacturing includes the production of alto, classical, tenor, and bass tuned guitars (with classical being the most widely used tuning). A luthier is a person who has learned the craft of making string instruments including guitars, generally on a
Portuguese guitar hard to find and can be quite expensive. The tuning chiefly employed on the Portuguese guitar was historically called "afinação do fado" or "afinação do fado corrido". It was probably developed in the early 19th century, as it was already largely adopted by Lisbon's "fadistas" by the mid-century. With the diminishing use of the natural tuning (see below) by players, this tuning came to simply be called either "afinação de Lisboa", when tuned high, in D, or "afinação de Coimbra", when tuned low, in C; this stems from the fact that while most Lisbon fado players tuned their guitars in