Guitar hardware

How are the parts called? Here's an image of a typical (acoustic) guitar.

• headstock (or head): holds the tuners
• tuners: tune the guitar
• frets: metal strips located at the points where notes are
• fretboard (or fingerboard): piece of wood that holds frets
• neck: the wooden extension that holds the head, tuners, frets, fretboard, ...
• body: the big part of the guitar

Types of guitar

Differences of some popular guitar types:

Classical guitar (acoustic)

• has nylon strings
• frets are flat

Western guitar (acoustic)

• has steel strings
• frets are not flat
• suitable for pop music, chord strumming, sing-a-song writer, etc

Electric guitar

• has steel strings
• frets are not flat
• does not produce much sound when not amplified
• most of the time features a solid (relatively small) and heavy body
• has pickups to pick up the vibrations and turn them into electric signals

See the next page for some examples