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": "assistant", "content": "I play the acoustic guitar - there are 3 main times of this guitar -  the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I thought there was just typically one type of guitar so that's interesting"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is also interesting that today's guitar was preceded by the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can you perhaps explain to me what a gittern is?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A gittern was a fairly small gut strung round-backed instrument from around the 13th century"}, {"role": "user", "content": "okay so kind of like an old ukelele? If that's a fair comparison"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It was quite popular with court musicians, minstrels, and amateurs"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's pretty cool, I bet it was really easy to take it with you everywher"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, and it was used in Minstrel shows, which was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century."}, {"role": "user", "content": "would those type of shows be in theatres or other areas?"}]