The guitar was invented, in its earliest stage, in 1779 by a Neapolitan named Gaetano Vinaccia. It was a derivative of the mandolin, which the Vinaccia family was renowned for making.
The guitar continued to evolve into its modern prototype when Antonio Torres Jurado of Seville, Spain began to make his own amendments to the instrument in the 1850s. As a result, the guitar is frequently associated with the music of Spain.
A common guitar possesses six strings and a fretted neck. An acoustic guitar has a body that is hollow and large in girth. Some electric guitars have a hollowed out bodies, in which case they are called archtops.
Jurado established the current dimensions seen on the majority of guitars today. In the twentieth century, the world of guitars was forever changed by George Beauchamp, who patented the electric guitar in 1936.
The invention of the guitar has made some of the greatest music possible. Without Gaetano Vinaccia's original, mandolinesque prototype, the melodies of some of the most influential songs might never have existed---the acoustic simplicity of The Beatles' "Blackbird" or the forceful, electric riffs of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".