In the United States the violin, the fife, and the guitar are used, but the favorite is the banjo, an instrument of African derivation, modified from the guitars with grass strings still in use on the Guinea coast.
Teresina took the guitar tuned it, and struck two or three handfuls of chords.
Perhaps Rita would come down soon, with her guitar or her embroidery-frame; and they would sing and chatter till the early dinner.
And sitting here with my good guitaron my knee, I cannot help comparing a nature like his to just such a beautiful stringed instrument as this.
It would, therefore, appear that the guitar was made by Manoel Correa of Almeida in the province of Beira, Portugal, and that the maker had the title of manufacturer of musical instruments to the Queen.
A five-stringed guitarinlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoise-shell.
The harp-guitar was manufactured with the intention of producing a sort of guitar with a superior quality of sound, by adopting the body of the harp.
A species of guitar somewhat resembling a violin in shape, with frets made of catgut.
A guitar of the Portuguese peasants, made in Lisbon, eighteenth century; oval shape with indentations at the side; six strings.
She is represented seated on a peacock and playing on a stringed instrument of the guitar kind.
The crystal flower-boat on the top made an uneasy noise, the crimson-tinted glass lampshades made music of their own in tremolo, and the guitar fell out of its corner on top of my cremona and cracked a string.
And now when I play either guitar or violin she listens most attentively or beats time with her bill on the bars of the cage.
Polly plays the guitar with her beak when I hold it close to her cage, ie, she touches the strings while I do the fingering.
For instance, though I have on board both a guitar and fiddle, I can neither play nor sing so much of an evening as I would like to do, because a little mob always gathers round to listen, and I might just as well be on the stage.
In fact, that we might not doubt him in this last particular, he took the guitar and sung a sonnet which he had composed to a certain Amaryllis.
There was a stifled metallic ringing, as of a guitar carried under a cloak.
Manuel would sing; far in the night the monotonous staccato of the guitar went on, accompanying plaintive murmurs, outbursts of anger and cries of pain, the tremulous moans of sorrow.
As at that time, when he had been nursing his truculent conceit, he sang, and the unsteady twanging of his guitar lurched and staggered far behind his voice, like a drunken slave in the footsteps of a raving master.
Now and then, elbowed in the surge round Castro, the guitar emitted a deep and hollow resonance.
Choosing and buying the guitar had lent reality to his imitated peace of mind; he had been careful over its strings, selecting such as Lolita preferred, wrapt in carrying out this spiritual forgery of another Genesmere.
The guitargrated a few pretty notes; otherwise there was silence.
Luis laid the guitar gradually down, and gradually lifting a pail in which the dipper rattled with emptiness, he proceeded to crawl on his journey.
He looked once again towards Tucson, and took the road he had promised not to take, leaving the guitar behind him altogether.
He went to the edge of the town and walked where passers would not meet him, turning now and then to look in the direction of Tucson, where the guitar was waiting.
You'll see Dad learning a guitar and strumming it under your balcony, and serenading you no end.
Still the notes of the guitar came gently across the quiet water; but there mingled with them now the sound of the lady's voice.
The guitar sounded once more, and the grotesque dog was on his hind legs in a moment.
The merry laughter of the girl, and the lively notes of the guitar were heard distinctly across the still water.
The lady had a guitar in her lap and was playing a simple dance melody.
The guitar has vanished from view; the globe of gold-fish is now the property of a friend; the ferns have been sent to the greenhouse of an aunt in Grosvenor Square.
She had to displace herguitar from the sofa on which she had left it, to make room for her uncle to sit by her side.
She has a little Florentine guitar which hangs in her parlor, quite out of reach.
Rachel had declared that it was the very guitarwith which she used to earn her living as a child in the streets of Paris.
Once in a studio she noticed a guitar hanging on the wall.
A little later it was reported that the dilapidated guitar had been purchased by a well-known gentleman for a thousand francs.
Whether he had ever before produced his guitar I can not say; certainly this was the first time I had heard the sound of it.
My mind was rambling in speculations of this kind when I heard the sound of a guitar and a voice singing.
It was not he who was playing the guitar and singing; therefore it was Don Christoval.
Just as he was approaching it he heard Elmira Royster's guitar in the porch opposite, and he crossed the street and entered the Royster's gate.
The guitar which led Miss Judy to this conclusion had belonged to her mother.
If I only had some one to play the tune, I might teach Doris the rudiments myself; or sister Sophia might, if she hadn't that shortness of breath, and if I could play any instrumental piece on the guitar except the Spanish fandango.
TONY meekly picks up the basket and he and his wife exit as the sound of an approaching guitar is heard off stage.
One is fingering a guitar without playing any particular tune, and the other has his hat cocked over his eyes in a burlesque, dude-like manner.
JIM begins to strum his guitar lightly at first as the talk goes on.
The full melody of theguitar comes out in a lively, old-fashioned tune.
Right now he's so romantic he'd twang a guitar all night under Lee's window.
The tinkle of a guitar accompanying a high, nasal peon chant, mingled with the roar and rattle of wheels.
Mr Thornhill seemed highly delighted with their performance and choice, and then took up the guitar himself.
The banjo is an all-round-the-world delight and a guitar may be almost heaven to a music-hungry boy or girl.
Now while I sit beside the oven door I take up my guitar upon my knee, And singing the old songs I knew of yore, My happy youth comes back again to me-- Music and incense rising on the air!
He had on board a wire guitar or viola, as it is here called; and in the bright moonlight nights, as we lay at anchor hour after hour waiting for the tide, he enlivened us all with songs and music.
The guitar was the favourite instrument with both sexes, as at Para; the piano, however, is now fast superseding it.
The ballads sung to the accompaniment of the guitar were not learned from written or printed music, but communicated orally from one friend to another.
Ferrer was not a commonplace performer, but played operatic selections of his own arrangement for the guitar that no one else attempted as far as I can recollect.
Ferrer, the guitarist, lately deceased, came here in early days from Mexico with his family and made a place for himself as a guitar and mandolin teacher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guitar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banjo; guitar; lute; mandolin; samisen; sitar; ukulele
