Talk:Outline of guitars

Removed a commercial link

I took out the section called Correct Technique. It was 2 lines of text advertising a commercial product under a big heading. This is not the sort of thing Wikipedia is for. In fact this was just the most egregious of several links that appear to be nothingmore than plugs for products (gootar is, I suspect, an example). If we need them at all, maybe these should be gathered into a "commercial products" section? Ornette 16:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Acoustic Guitar Models

Under "Famous Guitar Models", should we not also include famous acoustic guitar models (Martin D-18 and D-28 for example?)

Removed dead link under Guitarists

Removed dead link "hide" under guitarists. Also put some guitarists in the "S" category in alpha order, and added acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton.

Violining

Where's the reference to violining? It's one of the simplest and most effective techniques. Doozy88 21:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Links to check or add

Transferred from Guitar#See also

• Guitjo (double-neck)  Done
• G-sharp guitar  Done
• Guitar amplifier  Done
• Guitar harmonics  Done
• Guitar solo  Done
• List of compositions for guitar  Done
• List of guitar manufacturers  Done
• List of guitarists  Done
• Lyre-guitar  Done
• Nano guitar  Done
• Octave twelve  Done
• Prepared guitar  Done
• Tablature  Done

The Transhumanist 04:39, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

done The Transhumanist 05:38, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

OM or Orchestral Model

no mention of this type of guitar here, or is it listed under another name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.101.225 (talk) 11:02, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Thinking about it, this may not be the correct page for OM addition? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.101.225 (talk) 11:10, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Given the above explanation, this article has some problems. Perhaps an organological definition (such as Sachs) should be given in the opening paragraph. As it stands now, it also describes all sorts of things which are not guitars -- lutes, citterns, mandolins, etc. If the idea is to provide a sort of capsule taxonomical description of the class "guitar", this has not been done.

I question also the contention that the strings of a guitar are "generally six in number". For most of the history of the instrument, guitars more typically had four or five courses, frequently doubled, for eight or ten strings. For more than a century in Russia, the standard guitar had seven strings. Even in the USA today guitars with four, seven, eight, or twelve strings abound.

74.95.43.249 (talk) 23:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

The idea is to provide a taxonomy of the subtopics of the subject "guitars". Rather than a list guitars, it is a list of guitar topics. For an example of the distinction, see the difference between List of sharks and Outline of sharks. The Transhumanist 12:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup startup. The Transhumanist 12:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)