all illustrations & text: aadya vibhuti, ais pv, xi

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7THE GLOBAL TIMES |MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Strumming alongEducational PosterYou better come up with another idea for this posterbefore this gets changed again ...or worse, scrapped.

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Thebeautiful sounds

from the guitarstrumming were not just

created in a day. It tookyears for great musicians tocreate greater versions of thisinstrument, to evolve withinthemselves and let musicbreathe in all its glory.Aadya Vibhuti, AISPV, XI brings you the7 guitars thatchanged musichistory…

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Introduced in: 1923Aka: The First MasterpieceNotable Players: JohnMayer, Jan Akkerman,Eric ClaptonFact File:��This guitar was ini-tially introduced as anacoustic instrument.��During the big bandera, it was considered tobe the premier rhythmguitar.��This guitar is considered tobe the first in various fields with itbeing the first modern orchestraguitar, the first f-hole arch top gui-tar and the first guitar with a14-fret neck.

Introduced in: 1933Aka: The Flagship of the Martin

Line, The PearlNotable Players: GeneAutry, Neil YoungFact File:��This guitar derives itsname ‘pearl’ from thefact that it has beenmade from abalone, ashellfish with a mother-of-pearl interior.��During the period

1931-41, only 91 pieces ofthis guitar were made. This

explains why each one of themcomes at an exorbitant price.

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Introduced in: 1950Aka: The Most ImportantElectric Guitar Ever MadeNotable Players: JamesBurton, Muddy Waters,Roy BuchananFact File:��It was the first guitarof its kind to be pro-duced on a substantialscale.��It offers an easy-to-play solid body and isconsidered the Model-T of

guitars.��It gets its clean, brightsound from two coil pick-ups.

Introduced in: 1954Aka: The Standard Notable Players: DavidGilmour, Jimi Hendrix,John Lennon, BobDylanFact File:��It is the mostplayed, most popu-lar and most copiedelectric guitar ever. ��This guitar camewith a lot of novelelements: two cut-aways, the beveledbody, three pickups withselector switch, adjustablebridge for each string, pro-tected output jack, etc

Introduced in: 1980Aka: The Stradivarius of theElectric GuitarNotable Players: CarlosSantana, Joe WalshFact File: ��The guitar was orig-inally made for Car-los Santana. He wasso impressed withthe instrument thathe referred to it as“an act of God”.��Beautiful, popping

wood grain is a PRS sig-nature. The first wood

Smith used was curly maplefrom the drawer-fronts of afriend’s dresser.

Introduced in: 1958Aka: The Modernistic

Notable players: Jimi Hendrix,Albert King, Dave DaviesFact File:��Initially, only 98 models ofthis guitar were made. Thisis the reason for the originalmodels being so expensive. ��The original Flying Vwas made of korina, a tradename for African limbawood.

��Initially, the guitar didn’t selland hence, dealers resorted to

hanging them in windows. The salescaught on only a decade later.

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5Introduced in: 1952Aka: The LegendNotable players: Les Paul,Paul McCartney, Eric ClaptonFact File: ��It is made of mahoganywith a maple “cap”.��The guitar’s body givesa magical sunburst effect,which is a result of book-matching of the wood used. ��From mid-1957 until 1962,Les Paul humbuckers came with asticker - ‘Patent Applied For’.

Les Paul

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cool that you can pickup the guitar and create

something that didn’t exist 5minutes ago. You have music

at your fingertips.”MMiicchheellllee BBrraanncchh

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Santana

All illustrations & text: Aadya Vibhuti, AIS PV, XI