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
Russian guitar G-major. While the Spanish guitar is tuned in fourths with one (major) third (G–B), the Russian guitar is tuned in thirds (G–B, B–D, G–B, and B–D) with two fourths (D–G, and D–G): This tuning is thought to have been derived either from the baroque cittern (of the English guitar type), or might be from that of the torban, a Ukrainian variety of theorbo, as one of its tunings was also based on major triads. <br>Nevertheless, major guitar historians insist that the Russian 7-string tuning was invented in 1793 by Sychra, acknowledged harpsist of the 18th century, in order to adapt