I play the acoustic guitar - there are 3 main times of this guitar -  the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar.
I thought there was just typically one type of guitar so that's interesting
It is also interesting that today's guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar
Can you perhaps explain to me what a gittern is?
A gittern was a fairly small gut strung round-backed instrument from around the 13th century
okay so kind of like an old ukelele? If that's a fair comparison
It was quite popular with court musicians, minstrels, and amateurs
That's pretty cool, I bet it was really easy to take it with you everywher
Yes, and it was used in Minstrel shows, which was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.