Complete the summary. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answer in the numbered box.
Instruments similar to the guitar have been played by musicians for over (1) ________ years. What we know about many of these instruments comes from (2) ________ rather than actual physical examples or music played on them. In some ways, these early stringed instruments were closer to (3) ________ than the guitar as we know it today. We do have examples of six-string guitars that are 200 years old. However, the (4) ________ of six-string guitars made by guitar makers who are also known as luthiers before the final decade of the eighteenth century is often open to question.
Although the electric guitar was invented in the 1930s, it took several decades for electric guitars to develop, with the company Rickenbacker playing a major part in this development. Most (5) ________ electric guitars in use today are similar in design to guitars produced by the Fender Musical Instruments Company and the Gibson Guitar Corporation in the 1950s.
Instruments similar to the guitar have been played by musicians for over (1) ________ years.
