Ever since I was just a tyke I wanted to be a musician. I never made it number one on the charts, instead I became a local legend in Nashville and let me tell you, some of the best rockin' guitar players, the best there's ever been. Sounds like I'm quoting from the Charlie Daniel's song 'The Devil Went Down To Georgia' that made it mark in 1979 penned by Vasser Clements. Of course that features the dueling fiddles and we're and we're going to spin some history about guitars and how in the world they warped into today's electric guitar.

When you think of guitars, what's the first name that pops into your head? I do it's the Gibson guitar and numero uno (wish I owned it) was made way back in 1936 and was called the ES-150. To this day, there are music historians who'll swear,... 'that was pure heaven.

Without a doubt; the guitar in all its incarnations, whether acoustic or the electric guitar has seen a lot of evolution through the ages, and its past is a twisted journey to reconstruct. Documents say (though not iron clad) that tells us the Latin guitar comes from the Romans and dates to about 400 AD. It would only resemble today's guitar in a broad sense, being called a Tanbur a lute like stringed musical instrument from Asia Minor and Syria, most often possessing three strings; however it seems more likely our modern electric guitar may have sprung from the Cithara. The cithara, which has from three to twelve strings, was constructed with a wooden soundboard, box shaped body (resonator) and that doesn't sound too far from the electric guitar of today.

What's likely is that some talented music lover of that era took the best from each, and adding his own talents into the musical instrumentwhat would become the guitar|. Without a doubt those were very different times and the way ideas, concepts and crafts were communicated, spread at a snail's pace and may have taken a long period of time to spread from one area of the world to another. And while today they would answer to the term street musicians, in those days they hailed to the name troubadours.

The instrument, however it may have looked continued to change and refine itself and in 1200 AD had evolved into a guitar with rounded back and broad fingerboard (probably Moorish) and a different version which is the distant cousin of today's acoustic guitar (probably Spanish or Latin).

The guitar never left the scene of a good celebration, however it was overshadowed for for countless years by the vihuela and lute, which would become too complicated to play and tune, and those musical minds of yesteryear looked to the four and five string guitar, which again garnered its rightful place in the history books. The fifth string giving the guitar its rock solid (excuse the pun) reputation, versatility and longevity.

Turning our thoughts backwards into history, we can realize the twists and turns, and certainly no one back then (hey electricity hadn't even been invented) could envision the eclectic instrument it has become. Yet those music lovers of long ago built something of beauty, integrity and a bit of magic, since (basically) the design of today's guitar very much resembles those made one hundred and fifty years ago.