I really like the guitar, I used to play it when I was in college, Have you tried playing the guitar?
no, i'm more a piano person but my husband has an accoustic six strings guitar
A six string guitar is what I had in college actually, I remember playing many songs for my room-mates, I'm curious who makes the majority of guitars in the US anyways? 
i think Gibson company makes guitars. The modern guitar was preceeded by the gittern, the vihuela and the four course guitar
Those sounds like interesting instruments, What is a gittern?, I never heard of it
gittern was a relatively small gut strung round backed instrument 
Oh ok, it sounds very traditional. I wonder what countries it was popular in. Do you know? 
yes, it was popular during 13th century in western europe. Italy, france, England
Oh wow so it definitely has some history to it. Ill have to look it up. 
you mentioned you used to play guitar. what type? there is a classical guitar, acoustic guitar, the archtop guitar