i used to travel the usa playing guitar.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box (for an acoustic guitar), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker (for an electric guitar). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, thumb or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting (or pressing against the frets) the strings with the fingers of the left hand. The guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a \"jazz guitar\". The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings' vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I really like the guitar, I used to play it when I was in college, Have you tried playing the guitar?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "no, i'm more a piano person but my husband has an accoustic six strings guitar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "A six string guitar is what I had in college actually, I remember playing many songs for my room-mates, I'm curious who makes the majority of guitars in the US anyways? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "i think Gibson company makes guitars. The modern guitar was preceeded by the gittern, the vihuela and the four course guitar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Those sounds like interesting instruments, What is a gittern?, I never heard of it"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "gittern was a relatively small gut strung round backed instrument "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh ok, it sounds very traditional. I wonder what countries it was popular in. Do you know? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes, it was popular during 13th century in western europe. Italy, france, England"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow so it definitely has some history to it. Ill have to look it up. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "you mentioned you used to play guitar. what type? there is a classical guitar, acoustic guitar, the archtop guitar"}]