In one boxcar, a short man with long, curly brown hair is playing a guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

I don't know how well you can make it out but there's a little broom guy there with glasses, playing air guitar with his broom, and I guess this is meant to capture the spirit of the contributors.

我不知道你们能理解到什么程度,但是在那儿有一个戴着眼镜的男孩，用他的扫帚在弹着吉他，我猜这个的寓意是指要抓住那些发起人的精神内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Chuck Berry, one can see -- even I, every so often in the facility of Saint Louis -- I saw him a year or two ago, playing guitar and doing something approximating a dog walk.

很多人都看过Chuck，Berry表演，我也经常看,就在一两年前，我在圣路易斯,看到他弹着吉他，做着舞步,有点像一只狗在走路。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

He also made the first recording of a guitar-playing farm worker named McKinley Morganfield.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

But he dropped out one year later after someone gave him a guitar.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

He suggested Elvis work with a guitar player and a bass player.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Making a guitar with a solid body permitted the sound of the strings to last longer because their vibrating energy was not weakened by a vibrating sound box.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

The song is about a guitar player named "Johnny B.Goode."

VOA: special.2010.05.12

We have a guitar competition in which the winner wins a Wayne Henderson handmade guitar, which is a very coveted item."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

It's a Gibson J-200, and it's a guitar he used a lot actually, starting from around 1961 forward,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

"And I just take this, a good sharp whittling knife like this and cut away everything that does not look like a guitar."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Henderson says that is another reason why it takes long time for him to build a guitar.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

One time, a young manwas staying with us, and he had him a guitar case.

VOA: standard.other

It is not just a guitar. It is the whole atmosphere of this shop.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

A pickup is a device that captures the vibration of the metal guitar strings and changes them into electronic sound signals.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Jim Tedder explains. "It Might Get Loud" is a film about three generations of guitar superstars: Jimmy Page,the Edge and Jack White.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

His name is Jose Feliciano. Here he plays a song that is based on traditional Spanish guitar music.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

To play "air guitar" you move to the music as if you are playing an imaginary guitar, maybe like a famous rock musician.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

To make his guitar, Les Paul attached guitar strings and two electronic pickup devices onto a flat piece of wood from a railroad track.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

He worked as a piano player and gave lessons in the guitar and mandolin.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The Gibson Guitar Company hired Paul to design a special "Les Paul" guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

He developed a new kind of electric guitar that had a solid body.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And we tell you about a film featuring three greats of the guitar.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

He was a twelve-string guitar player named-- also known as Lead Belly.

VOA: special.2010.01.18