folk guitar
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A folk guitar is an acoustic guitar designed for playing folk music, typically featuring steel strings and a body shape suited for fingerpicking or strumming accompaniment to vocals.
It differs from classical guitars, which have nylon strings and a wider neck.
The term may also refer to the playing style itself, emphasizing simple chord progressions and rhythmic patterns common in traditional and contemporary folk music.
- fretsWorries or string dividers
- steel stringsMetal filaments for fretted instruments
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- soundholeOpening in acoustic instrument
- countrySovereign state or territory
alternate tunings · finger picking · tuning pegs · flatpicking · Americana · pickguard · protest movements · oral traditions · front porch · singer-songwriter · campfire songs · sing along · coffee house · troubadours · Woody Guthrie · strumming · Celtic music · protest songs
- Guitarsacoustic, electric, classical, archtop, dreadnought
- acoustic guitarsdreadnought, nylon strings, steel strings, soundhole, frets
- F instrumentsflute, fife, fiddle, French horn, flugelhorn
- fingerstyle guitarfingerpicking, fingerstyle, thumbpick, fingerpicks, thumb picks
- Chilean Musicguitarron, Nicole
- small-bodied guitars
folk guitarelectric guitar
Amplified stringed instrument
Les Paul · Stratocaster · synthesizer · bass guitar · electronic instrument
folk guitarclassical guitar
Acoustic with nylon strings
nylon-string guitar · flamenco guitar · Spanish guitar · jazz guitar · electric guitar
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