[http://basicguitarchords.com beginner guitar lessons]|}The guitar is the outcome of several evolutions of the lute and other string instruments from the 15th century. Guitars had four sets of strings and were formerly much smaller. The larger-bodied six-string guitar as we know that now was created in the late nineteenth century, and had both gut or steel strings. Half a millennium afterwards, gut strings were changed with plastic. Nowadays we find equally steel-chain (acoustic) and nylon-chain (traditional) guitars, the steel-chain guitar being more typical.
