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Materials included with the guitar was a "Guide to Stringing" with graphics showing how to string a guitar, as well as information on truss rod adjustment and how to adjust the locking tuning pegs and a point of contact e-mail address for questions.

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  1. noun A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.

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fret · humbucker · unplugged · bracing · courses · truss rod · inlays · soundboard · purfling · binding · rosette

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  1. French guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Greek kitharā, cithara.

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  1. = D. Danish guitar = German guitarre = Sw. gitarr, from French guitare, a later form (after Provencal guitara, Spanish Portuguese guitarra, Italian chitarra) of Old French guiterre, earlier guiterne (later older English gittern), from Latin cithara, from Greek κιθάρα, a kind of lyre: see cithara, cithern, cittern, gittern, zither.
 

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