| 簡介：吉他一直是人氣超高的樂器，一同來認識這種美妙樂器的歷史，以及你不知道的吉他趣聞。
The Beautiful Guitar
The great composer Frederic Chopin once said, “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two.” It seems that many people agree with him because the guitar is one of the world’s most popular musical instruments.
The guitar has a long but clouded history. There is some debate about the true origins of the instrument. What is certain is that the name comes from two Sanskrit words: char and tar, which mean “four” and “string”. As the name changed over the years, so did the sound and shape of the guitar until it became the instrument we know and love today.
The electric guitar became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The guitars are connected to pickups, which translate the movement of the guitar’s strings into electrical signals. In this state, it becomes easy to add effects to the sound. One popular effect is reverb, which adds an echo effect to the music. Nowadays, it is rare to see a new rock or pop band that doesn’t include at least one electric guitar.
扣人心弦的美妙吉他
偉大的作曲家費德里克．蕭邦曾說過：「沒有什麼比一把吉他更美的了，或許除了兩把吉他之外。」似乎很多人認同他的說法，因為吉他是世上最受歡迎的樂器之一。
吉他的歷史悠久卻撲朔迷離。關於這種樂器真正的起源有些爭論。可以確定的是這個名稱來自兩個梵文字：char和tar，意即「四」和「弦」。隨著多年來樂器名稱的改變，吉他的聲音和外型也有變化，直到今日它變成這種我們認識且喜愛的樂器。
電吉他在一九五○和一九六○年代開始流行。這種吉他接上拾音器，它能將吉他弦的振動轉換成電流訊號。在這種狀況下，要在聲音中加入效果變得很容易。一種熱門的效果是殘響，即在音樂中加入回音效果。時至今日，很少看到一支新的搖滾或流行樂團不含至少一把電吉他的了。
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