Despite all the hype on mock music-playing video games (like Guitar Hero and Rock Band), a popular type of music instrument maintains a top position in Web shopping searches: the acoustic guitar. Featured in many music genres, this string instrument has thrived for many millenniums -- proof of early guitar-like instruments date back for at least 5000 years.

Today, renown U.S. and Japanese guitar manufacturers go head-to-head to lure guitarists with their handcrafted, wood beauties, while Web shoppers search the most for these famous acoustic guitar brands:

1. Yamaha
2. Fender
3. Ibanez
4. Martin
5. Gibson
6. Washburn
7. Takamine
8. Epiphone
9. Ovation
10. Taylor

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