Phrase Hound found 38 phrases and 4 compound words that contain guitars. The most common are listed below. Open guitars in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 38
- electric guitarsplural of electric guitar: A guitar which requires electronic amplification to produce sufficient sound.
- acoustic guitarsplural of acoustic guitar: A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.
- air guitarsplural of air guitar: An imaginary guitar that a listener to (usually rock) music pretends to play.
- bass guitarsplural of bass guitar: A long-necked and solid-bodied stringed instrument (chordophone), tuned to produce bass or low notes, usually with a fretted fingerboard and four thick strings, and requiring the use of an amplifier.
- classical guitarsplural of classical guitar: A type of flat-tabled guitar of Spanish origin used primarily for Western classical music, flamenco, and Latin American music, with six nylon (formerly gut) strings, usually played with the fingers rather than …
- lead guitarsplural of lead guitar: An electric guitar in a band that plays soloistically, usually playing melodically as opposed to strumming chords; supported by the rhythm guitar.
- moon guitarsplural of moon guitar: A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.
- romantic guitarsplural of romantic guitar: An archaic kind of early guitar, from the classical and romantic eras, with six single strings and a long, fretted neck.
- Spanish guitarsplural of Spanish guitar: A type of flat-tabled guitar of Spanish origin used primarily for Western classical music, flamenco, and Latin American music, with six nylon (formerly gut) strings, usually played with the fingers rather than …
- rhythm guitarsplural of rhythm guitar: A guitar in a band that provides rhythm, usually by playing chords or similar accompanying parts, to support the lead guitar.
- harp guitarsplural of harp guitar: Any of several designs of guitars with at least one unstopped string that can be plucked, like that of a harp.
- tenor guitarsplural of tenor guitar: A type of small guitar-like stringed instrument with four strings, usually with four strings and a normal guitar-shaped body, originating in American jazz music.
- Baroque guitarsplural of Baroque guitar: An archaic form of guitar with five strings, originating in the Baroque era, played by either strumming or plucking, and characterized by the use of reentrant tuning.
- acoustic bass guitarsplural of acoustic bass guitar: A bass guitar meant to be played without electric amplification and as an accompaniment to the acoustic guitar.
- steel-string guitarsplural of steel-string guitar: A type of acoustic guitar designed to be strung with metal strings.
- flamenco guitarsplural of flamenco guitar: A type of acoustic guitar with reduced internal bracing and thinner tops. It is used mainly in the performance of toques, the guitar part of flamenco music.
- parlor guitarsplural of parlor guitar: A kind of small acoustic guitar, originally meant to be played (often by women) in the parlor of a Victorian-era home; more modern models are still used today, commonly in folk music.
- cigar box guitarsplural of cigar box guitar: A simple guitarlike string instrument that uses a cigar box as a resonator, and traditionally has a broomstick for a neck.
- baritone guitarsplural of baritone guitar: A type of large-bodied and long-necked guitar that plays in a baritone range.
- Portuguese guitarsplural of Portuguese guitar: A plucked guitar with a pear-shaped body and round soundholes, with twelve strings in six double courses, associated most prominently with Portuguese music, especially fado.
- slide guitarsplural of slide guitar: A technique of playing guitar by sliding a metal tube, or (originally) a glass bottleneck, along the guitar strings to alter the pitch.
- steel guitarsplural of steel guitar: A method of playing slide guitar using a steel (a kind of slide).
- Hawaiian guitarsplural of Hawaiian guitar: lap steel guitar
- console steel guitarsplural of console steel guitar: A type of large electric lap steel guitar, usually with two necks and seven or eight strings.
- four-string guitarsplural of four-string guitar: A type of small guitar-like stringed instrument with four strings, usually with four strings and a normal guitar-shaped body, originating in American jazz music.
Compound words 4
- guitarstringAlternative form of guitar string: The string of a guitar.
- contraguitarsplural of contraguitar: An old form of guitar originating in Vienna, with a standard six-string neck and a second bass neck with up to nine strings.
- guitarscapesplural of guitarscape: A soundscape consisting predominantly of guitars.
- harpguitarsplural of harpguitar: Any of several designs of guitars with at least one unstopped string that can be plucked, like that of a harp.