guitar

fretted string instrument
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The guitar was named Instrument of the Year [1].

Key Facts

  • Award received: Instrument of the Year[3]
  • Made from material: maple wood[4], mahogany wood[5]
  • Subclass of: necked, flat-backed, plucked lute[6], long, thin object[7]
  • Part of: guitar family[8]
  • Commons category: Guitars[9]
  • Unicode character: 🎸[10]
  • Has part(s): neck[11], body[12], nut[13], headstock[14], machine head[15], fret[16], truss rod[17], inlay[18], guitar string[19], sound hole[20], fretboard[21], bridge[22], Decke (Saiteninstrument)[23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Guitars[24]
  • Commons gallery: Guitar[25]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Guitar[26]
  • Depicted by: Guitar Hero[27]
  • Described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary[28], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Encyclopædia Britannica[31], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[32], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[33], Diccionario del español de México[34], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[35]
  • Partially coincident with: electro-acoustic chordophone[36]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox guitar model[37]
  • Used by: guitarist[38]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Guitar[39]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.322-5-6[40]
  • Different from: Sista[41]
  • Has part(s) of the class: guitar accessories[42]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q21201204[43]
  • Practiced by: guitar technician[44], guitarist[45], guitar teacher[46]

Why It Matters

guitar has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] guitar is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

FAQs

What awards did guitar receive?

Honors received include Instrument of the Year[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 2013.instrument-des-jahres.de. Retrieved . 2013.instrument-des-jahres.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . fileformat.info. Retrieved . fileformat.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'a
    Sitelink count → 212
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-oDEr-NF9M-7TYp
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-oDEr-NF9M-7TYp, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250707409|gitara (#250707409)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl topic]]"
  2. 5w ago · StarTrekker · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → guitar family
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: guitar family"
  3. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Guitar
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Guitar, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  4. 13w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → neck, body, nut +10
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Has part(s): Decke (Saiteninstrument), разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect sound board → Decke (Saiteninstrument) ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/"
  5. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3Fxfw3
    Image → Classical Guitar two views.jpg, Guitar May 2009-1.jpg
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 16w ago · Ringbang · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usenet newsgroup → alt.guitar
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Usenet newsgroup: alt.guitar"
  7. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → guitar
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: guitar, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934680|guitar (#289934680)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  8. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004599-kytara
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004599-kytara, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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