Who looked at a tree and thought it could be a guitar?

There is a question I regularly ask my students because it’s one I ask myself. Who looked at a tree and thought it could or should be a guitar? Did you ever think about that? 

Which leads to the next question: When did that happen and where?

It is said that a plucked stringed instrument that closely resembles a guitar can be seen in a picture painted around 3,000 B.C. in Egypt. That doesn’t mean that it was then first though does it? We will have to explore.