They were enhanced often used as tempo instruments in ensembles than as solo instruments, and can often be seen in that role in early music performances. (Gaspar Sanz' Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española of 1674 constitutes the majority of the surviving solo corpus for the era.) Renaissance and Electric Guitar Baroque guitars are easily distinguished because the Renaissance guitar is very plain and the Baroque guitar is express ornate, with ivory or grove inlays all over the neck and body, and a paper-cutout inverted "wedding cake" inside the hole.
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Also called the fingerboard, the fretboard is a piece of wood embedded with metal frets that comprises the finest of the neck
- It is planate on classical guitars and slightly round crosswise on audio-visual and electric guitars