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Also Known As guitar, acoustic

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Venetian guitar with mother-of-pearl inlays
lyre-shaped guitar
Blue electric guitar with a white pickguard and brown fretboard, shown against a white background.
Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster
American bluegrass musicians playing mandolin (left) and guitar (right).
Features of a modern acoustic guitar.
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Key People

Bruce Springsteen plays an acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone on stage at the New York Film Festival Spotlight Gala.
Bruce Springsteen
American singer, songwriter, and bandleader
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Slash stands in a studio holding an amber Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, wearing a top hat, sunglasses, and a t-shirt with a skull graphic.
Slash
British-American guitarist
Dolly Parton smiles while holding a microphone, wearing a green outfit with sparkling details, in front of a red background.
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
American musician
Keith Richards sits on a curb in front of a white brick wall, wearing a dark jacket and white shoes, with an electric guitar propped up behind him.
Keith Richards
British musician
Neil Young sings and plays electric guitar on stage under concert lighting, wearing a light-colored suit, with a microphone and guitar picks visible in front of him.
Neil Young
Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen
Dutch-born American guitarist
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
American musician
Pete Townshend of The Who holding an acoustic guitar, wearing a patterned shirt, standing in front of a striped curtain in 1971.
Pete Townshend
British musician
A rock iconoclast
Frank Zappa
American musician
Prince stands on stage in a turquoise suit, holding a purple, symbol-shaped guitar above his head, during his Super Bowl XLI halftime performance.
Prince
American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
Link Wray
Link Wray
American musician
George Strait
George Strait
American musician
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
American musician
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan wearing a wide-brimmed black hat with silver conchos and a brown shirt, posing outdoors at an open air concert in Germany in 1983.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
American musician
Eric Clapton plays an electric guitar onstage, eyes closed, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, with drums and bright stage lights in the background.
Eric Clapton
British musician
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Eddie Condon
American musician
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Homer Haynes
American entertainer
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Hubert Sumlin
American musician

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