Do you have any idea how many types of guitars there are? I bet you don’t. Here’s just a few of the different types that make up the wonderful world of guitars.

Renaissance and Baroque guitars aren’t really modern guitars; they are in fact the pre-runners of the today’s classical guitars. They are quieter than today’s species and tend to have 4 or 5 strings.

The Ten-string guitar is a modern guitar created in the 1960s by a Narciso Yepes to follow a musical logic that would create the ability for all 12 tones of the chromatic octave to be created. He introduced the C, A?, G?, and F?, strings which will resonate when those tones are played on other strings allowing for all 12 tones to have string resonating support. This should not be confused with multi-string guitars, some of which do have 10 strings, but does not create the same effect.

The Portuguese guitar has 12 strings, while the guitar called the 12 string guitar is a steel stringed instrument used mostly in folk, blues and of course rock n’ roll. This type of guitar does have 12 strings but set in 6 courses of two strings per course.

The flat top guitar which is also called the steel-string guitar has many similarities to the classical guitar but it usually has a larger body than the classical and a reinforced narrower neck. This type of guitar is used largely in folk and blues, but is also very popular in jazz and country as well.

Then there’s the archtop guitars which are also steel stringed but have a violin-type f-hole feature, and tend to be curved rather than flat. The archtop guitar usually has a deeper body than most making it closely related to the mandolin, and can be either acoustic or electric.

Honestly, this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg – the guitars just keep on coming!