Around 1931 was when the very first electric guitar was born, and it was created by a man named Paul H. Tutmarc.

Invented in 1932, the electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitar players, who wanted to play single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles.

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Guitar sizes – The Smallest: Ukulele The ukulele is a small Hawaiian guitar with four strings. It’s the smallest guitar you’re likely to encounter.

Classical. The easiest guitars to learn on, in my opinion, are classical guitars. They use nylon strings which are much easier on the fingers as they have less tension. This means you don’t have the barrier of building callouses to worry about, you can just focus on learning.

The guitalele combines the portability of a ukulele, due to its small size, with the six single strings and resultant chord possibilities of a classical guitar. The guitalele is variously marketed (and used) as a travel guitar or children’s guitar. It is essentially a modern iteration of the Quint guitar.

The answer is yes, you can absolutely tune a guitalele like a guitar: EADGBe. If you want your guitalele to have the exact same tuning as a standard guitar and your guitarlele doesn’t have bridge pins, you can use Aquila’s standard guitar tuning guitalele strings.

It uses the same fingerings, but a guitalele is usually tuned up a fourth from standard guitar tuning. So if you play what would be a G chord on a guitar, on the guitalele it’ll be a C chord. You can think of it as equivalent to a guitar with a capo on the 5th fret.

YES… you can play all the chords you already know in guitar with the guitalele. Out of the box, a guitalele is tuned 4th higher than a guitar which means the songs you’ll play will sound a bit higher because an open E chord in guitar is actually an A chord in guitalele.

There are two kinds of strings that will work on this instrument: classical guitar strings (nylon), or special guilele (some versions of this instrument are called guilele, not guitalele) strings made by Aquila.

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Guitars, however, are typically tuned in a series of ascending perfect fourths and a single major third. To be exact, from low to high, standard guitar tuning is EADGBE—three intervals of a fourth (low E to A, A to D and D to G), followed by a major third (G to B), followed by one more fourth (B to the high E).

Answer is yes, you can. Normally guitaleles are tuned up a fourth from standard guitar tuning (so A-D-G-C-E-a). So you can simply tune each string down by a fourth to get EADGBe. Do that and now you’re in standard guitar tuning.

The ukulele is easier to learn than the guitar and other stringed instruments like the mandolin. Its soft nylon strings are gentler on your fingertips and don’t create finger pain like guitars do. Plus, it only has four strings, which makes chord shapes and scales easier to learn.

Can You Tune a Ukulele Like a Guitar? You can tune a ukulele in fourths, which will mimic the tuning of a guitar. However, a ukulele only has four strings—compared to the six strings of a standard guitar—so while it is possible to tune a ukulele this way, it may defeat the purpose of playing ukulele.