Alto guitar may refer to:
- Six-string alto guitar, a classical guitar with light strings and a small body, designed to be tuned higher than the normal classical guitar.
- Eleven-string alto guitar, also called the altgitarr, the Swedish name given to it by its Swedish inventor.
- Thirteen-string alto guitar, a less common version of the altgitarr; See eleven-string alto guitar.
- Tenor guitar when tuned to G-C-E-A one fourth higher than the top four strings of the guitar.
Famous quotes containing the word guitar:
“Swiftly in the nights,
In the porches of Key West,
Behind the bougainvilleas
After the guitar is asleep,
Lasciviously as the wind,
You come tormenting.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)