A former Healthcare Program Specialist for the New York State Department of Health, Jeffrey Plotzker possesses technical skills in mathematical analysis and financial management along with strong interpersonal skills like critical thinking and effective communication. When away from work, Jeffrey Plotzker is fond of playing the guitar.
Believed by many to be the second most popular musical instrument in the world, the guitar belongs to the string family. The two most common types of guitars are the acoustic and electric. Guitars have at least four strings - the guitar with the largest number of strings has 18.
Listed below are some interesting and little-known facts about the guitar.
1. The oldest guitar, estimated to be about 3,500 years old, is kept in Cairo’s Archaeological Museum. It was believed to come from Persia, and is called a Tanbur.
2. The smallest guitar in the world can be found at New York’s Cornell University. It is ten micrometers long, or 1/100th of a millimeter. Its strings are 50 nanometers thick. It is made of crystalline silicon.
3. The largest guitar in the world was created by the Academy of Science and Technology in Texas. A model of a Gibson Flying-V, it measures 43 feet long and is 16 feet across.
4. The most expensive guitar was sold for $2.8 million in efforts to raise funds for the tsunami victims on the Indian Ocean in 2004. The fund raising drive was called “Reach Out to Asia.” The guitar was signed by guitar greats such as Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Bryan Adams.
