Few Interesting Facts about Guitars

• Guitars are made and repaired by “luthiers”.
• Instruments similar to the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years.
• The oldest know iconographic representation of an instrument displaying all the essential features of a guitar being played is a 3,300 year old stone carving of Hittite bard.
• The electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in 1936.
• Queen guitarist Brian May is known to use as a guitar pick.
• Rickenbacker guitars gained fame when Beatle John Lennon played one on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
• Guitar strings were originally made of cat gut.