The Biggest Guitar OF The World Article For English Students
This is news is about a guitar. The guitar is the biggest guitar in the
world. It is 43 feet long (13 metres) and 16 feet wide (almost 5
metres). It weighs 2,255 pounds. That is over a thousand kilos...
The guitar is really big, but you can still play it! Scientists built it
in Texas 10 years ago. It took a year to build it. They built it in a
university...
There are more guitars at the museum. The museum is only about guitars.
There is another guitar which is also special. It is from a mammoth’s
tusk...
Difficult words: mammoth (an animal which does not live anymore, and it
looked like a big, hairy elephant), tusk (an animal’s big tooth),
special (rare)...
The world’s largest guitar is on display at a guitar museum in New
Jersey, USA. It is 43 feet long (13 metres) and 16 feet wide (almost 5
metres). It weighs a massive 2,255 pounds which is over a thousand
kilos...
The cool thing about this guitar is not just the size, though. People
can actually play the guitar. It was built in Texas about ten years ago
as a project to teach engineering and physics. It took almost a year to
build it...
The huge guitar is not the only interesting one at the museum. There is a guitar which is partly made of a mammoth’s tusk...
Difficult words: engineering (the branch of science about design and
building), huge (very big), tusk (a long pointed tooth of an animal)...
There she is, the world's largest playable guitar, and you don't need the skills of Jimi Hendrix to give it a strum...
The 43-foot-long (13 metres) Gibson is on display at a new exhibition
all about guitars on at the moment at the Liberty Science Center in
Jersey City...
Harvey Newquist from the National Guitar Museum is the organiser...
“It was built by a science academy in Houston, Texas about ten years ago
as a project to teach construction engineering and physics to students,
and it took them almost a year to build it and right after they built
it, the Guinness Book of Records certified it as the world's largest
playable guitar. And we do specify that it's playable. It's not just a
sign. It's not a picture. It can actually be strummed. It doesn't sound
necessarily the sweetest of all guitars, but it can be played.”..
The guitar is 16 feet (almost 5 metres) wide and weighs a massive 2,255
pounds, over a thousand kilos and more than 150 stones. It's not the
only interesting guitar on display at this travelling exhibition...
This one's partly made up of the ivory from a woolly mammoth...
Difficult words: Jimi Hendrix (a famous guitarist from the 1970s), strum
(to play a guitar by sweeping the thumb down across the strings),
academy (school devoted to one type of subject), physics (the branch of
science about movement), ivory (the bone from a tusk which is a big
tooth from a mammal)...
