Guitars By kfarnbauch Jan 1, 1000 Guitar like insturment is made with 4 strings (1400BC) Jan 1, 1020 Romans bring cithara to Protugal and Spain (40AD) Jan 1, 1100 4 string guitar develops from cithara 2 types Moorish and Latin guitar Guitar History Timeline Jan 1, 1400 The vihuela comes to existence and is preferred for 200 years Jan 1, 1600 Many tuning and playing difficulties resulted into the 4 or 5 course baroque guitar Jan 1, 1890 Antonio Torres Jurado redesigns the guitar by making the body and neck bigger Jan 1, 1900 Acoustic and classical guitar are the popular guitars used Jan 1, 1931 Adolph Rickenbacker is inventer of the first modern amplifiable electric guitar Inventor of first electric guitar Jan 1, 1951 Leo Fender invented the first bass guitar First Bass Guitar