Where does the Guitar come from? 

By the way, if you'd like to hear some music played on some of my guitars, I've been recording old 50's songs for my own entertainment during lockdown, and uploading them on a separate channel: ru-vid.com/show-UCixmru_kBh0EUd0d2jud9zw

Damn, that's a good-ass video my dude. Love your spirit. History is so rich

Fascinating topic and great episode! About 15:55, _dobro_ also means "good" in Polish and other closely related Slavic languages. Of course, we Slavs have to complicate things a bit grammar-wise, so it's only "good" as a noun (in the nominative case) and the ending of "good" as an adjective changes depending on the grammatical gender of the noun it describes. There is another fascinating instrument that came to Europe probably mostly through Al-Andalus called hurdy-gurdy in English. In many European languages, it's called lute or (more often) lyre, with additional qualifiers meaning "cranked", 'wheel" or "turning".

I love these videos! How do you research them, is it mainly books, articles, internet?

Love it!

Very nicely done. It combines two of my main interests- instruments and etymology. I've built kitharas for museums, and medieval vielles (from Latin fidula, which also gave us fiddle). Do you suppose these words might also be related to guitar? There's medieval English _crotta, cruit, crowd,_ referring to many stringed instruments, and modern Welsh _crwth,_ which is a kind of bowed lyre. cheers from an instrumentmaker in Vienna, Scott

I'm looking forward to the next video!

Rock on

Another awesome video. I find much value in your channel already, only second video so far

really interesting and well presented. So much info I'm going to have to watch it again and I'll be saving it as a great reference video.

Very cool summary!

Awesome video!

In Farsi(persian) we still use word ‘tar’ as string. 😀 thanks for this unique lesson!

Great story! I look forward to more!

That was so interesting, thank you.

As a guitarplayer i’m loving this!!! And 20 minutes, aah my short attention span brain loves you!

wonderful 💕🎸💕

Damnit why do I not find this until weeks later? I think youtube is screwing with us ... A great video as always! :)

The pandura looks like a shamisen. Three strings and the plecturm looks just like the bachi you use for a shamisen. Samishen btw is literally translates to "three string". Seems like everybody comes to the same idea everywhere in the world.

I laughed so hard at the Ood

Quite interesting, wish I could get into playing music, just never feels like I have time.

9:56 "Ben Jonson"? or the 4th Doctor? He's got to be one of Tom Baker's ancestors.

The electro-magnet string resonator from the 1890s you mention at 16:50 sounds very similar to the 'Ebow' released in the 70s. Its used by guitarists to produce an electronic 'bow' like sound. Great video! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBow Greeting from Liverpool, England!

Great video! I was curious to see how you'd delve into one of the more contentious topics of discussion in historical musicological circles. One thing I've wondered is: don't citole, gittern, and cittern share the same etymology? I'm not sure when these terms diverged from each other, but I feel (with very little supporting evidence than just a cursory understanding of historical linguistics) that these were just terms that were loosely thrown around, considering that there are many instruments with these names that are considered to fall "in between" these categories. I wonder if it's similar to how vihuela and viola were confused with one another because they'd originally meant the same thing but featured sound changes characteristic to their origins (iberian vs italic).

Setting education up to eleven again

I think the most famous player of the lap slide guitar is David Gilmour, formerly of Pink Floyd

I have long noticed that guitar (גיטרה) and most other instruments have very similar names in Hebrew & English. This video seems to explain the similarity as I think Hebrew was strongly influenced by Persian, Arabic and other ancient cultures you mentioned. In fact, the main difference between the English pronunciation and Hebrew pronunciations for instruments is the Hebrew feminine ending ה. Did the word "Music" also come from the same origins as the guitar? In Hebrew it is מוסיקה pronounced musicah.

Would argue Steve Hackett pioneered tapping before EV in the early 70s

As usual , 4 minutes into this and I'm wondering how on earth you're going to fill the time left in the video and then you keep bringing out words for 15 more minutes!!! Your site is what I mean when I tell people there are for more intelligent things to discuss than politics.

Liked the Keytar joke. Worst of the both worlds, as they say. Also, this video goes up to 11, loved it!

1 hour video for monsters, I will put this on my Halloween playlist : D I still remember back in 2004-5, when I was in high school the news of cloning came and I saw a lot of outrage, mostly from conservative, religious groups/people. That it was "playing to be God" and that it was the end of humanity, and it was gonna be a way to have "designed babies", etc, etc, etc. It's been, how many years? And I still haven't seen any of that, thou I have read about the improvement of eyesight for partially blind people, tissue transplants, and we even have portions of organs now on the work, hoping we can finally get full organs and finally break the tortuous waiting list for organ transplants. And there's of course the work on natural preservation by cloning endangered species. There's a lot to be thankful with science and their work on "playing God" I think science has always been demonized by media, specially by religions, and you can always see it in the type of monsters we create, how they comes from lab accidents, or an evil scientist, mad scientist or how using science destroys the earth and causes the birth of said monsters. Probably because controlling people is rather easy when it comes to believes, but I think its mostly because of fear of the unknown, that humans naturally fear what they can't understand or control. Oh brilliant mention of the donkey ears (trump) and trying to cover much of an ass (trump) he is.. xDDDDD

Where does bass come from??

16:53 that's where you're wrong, kiddo, never heard of the E-bow? Google is your friend.

What do you think about Arabic language? I believe its a mixture and deformed of Persian language. I'm a Persian myself and did a few research about it and realized that more than 80% of Arabic words have Persian origin but deformed somehow (convert words to two- and three-syllable words). I feel it happened because of religious and political reasons.

The audio on this video is too quiet. You need to double check your levels before and after uploading to RU-vid.

Rolled my eyes at the cultural appropriation bit, but the content is too compelling for that to matter. RIP Van Halen 🤘

Guitars came from the devil. 🤣

Cultural appropriation 🤏😖🤏