La guitarra

• Taxonomía instrumental
• Historia y evolución
• Anatomía y despiece
• Tipos
• Diseño y dimensiones
• Ergonomía y calidad

3: Objective - The Perfect Guitar

3.1: Playability

• 3.1.1: Plucking hand feel
• 3.1.2: Fretting hand feel
  • 3.1.2.1: Scale length
  • 3.1.2.2: Tuneability
  • 3.1.2.3: Action
  • 3.1.2.4: String height at the nut
  • 3.1.2.5: Relief
  • 3.1.2.6: Fretboard curvature
  • 3.1.2.7: Neck profile/nut width
  • 3.1.2.8: Frets
  • 3.1.2.9: Neck finish
  • 3.1.2.10: Neck to body joint position; cutaways
  • 3.1.2.11: Number of frets

3.2: Musicality

• 3.2.1: Consonance and dissonance
  • 3.2.1.1: Experimental demonstration of consonance and dissonance
  • 3.2.1.2: The consonance of intervals
  • 3.2.1.3: A brief history of scales
  • 3.2.1.4: The tuning gap (between what you tune to and what you’d like to hear)
  • 3.2.1.5: The tuning error (between what you tune to and what your guitar plays)
  • 3.2.1.6: Achieving pitch accuracy
  • 3.2.1.7: Dealing with inharmonicity
• 3.2.2: The acoustic response characteristics of a guitar
  • 3.2.2.1: A perfect frequency response?
  • 3.2.2.2: Guitar performance factors: “Volume and tone”
  • 3.2.2.3: Nomenclature
  • 3.2.2.4: Tonal qualities of a Dreadnought guitar used for flat picking
  • 3.2.2.5: Tonal qualities of a steel string guitar for finger style playing
  • 3.2.2.6: Tonal qualities of a classical guitar
  • 3.2.2.7: Tonal qualities of a flamenco guitar (flamenco blanca)