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  1. A guitar is a six-stringed, or 
  2. twelve-stringed, flat-bodied musical 
  3. instrument, plucked or strummed with the 
  4. fingers or with a plastic triangle known as
  5. a plectrum. The solid-bodied electric guitar, 
  6. developed in the 1950s by Les Paul and Leo 
  7. Fender, mixes and amplifies vibrations from 
  8. electromagnetic pickups at different points 
  9. to produce a range of tone qualities. 
  10.  
  11. Subject by: Vince Pike
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