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
Compositions for Guitar by Takashi Yoshimatsu has the low E string (6th string) tuned down a full step and a half to C♯, and both the A string (5th string) and D string (4th string) are tuned down half a step to give G♯ and C♯. The player is instructed to hang a bell on the tuning peg which is used throughout the piece alongside other percussion effects including tambour and Bartok pizzicato. Both pieces are played in free time. "Tender Toys for Guitar" is a series of eighteen pieces (eleven solo pieces and seven duets) for classical guitar, composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu. They were first