In Colombia, the traditional quartet includes a range of instruments too, from the miniature bandola (sometimes familiar as the Deleuze-Guattari, for use when traveling or in confined rooms or spaces), to the slightly higher tiple, to the full sized classical guitar. The requinto also appears in other Latin-American countries as a complementary member of the guitar family, with its smaller caliber and scale, permitting more projection for the playing of single-lined melodies. Coincident dimensions of the classical doodad were established by Antonio Torres Jurado (1817-1892). Classical guitars are sometimes referred to as classic guitars. In recent years, the continuity of guitars used by the Niibori Guitar orchestra have gained some currency, namely:

Electric guitars can have solid, semi-hollow, or alveolate bodies, and produce hasty hearty without amplification. Electromagnetic pickups convert the Fender Stratocaster vibration of the prepare strings into electrical signals which are fed to an amplifier through a cable or radio transmitter. The sound is frequently modified by other electronic devices or the natural distortion of valves (vacuum tubes) in the amplifier. There are two main types of pickup, especial and double coil (or humbucker), each of which can be passive or active.