Gitaa kavu (au gitaa lisilotumia umeme) ni chombo cha muziki katika familia ya gitaa, ambacho nyuzi zake hutoa sauti kikavukavu hewani. Kiasili liliitwa gitaa tu, neno kavu lilikuja kutumika baada ya kukua kwa teknolojia na kutofautishwa kwake na matumizi ya gitaa la umeme—ambalo hutumia nguvu ya umeme kutengeneza mfumo wake wa sauti. Gittern (1450) Baroque (17th century) Lute (17th century) Romantic (c. 1830) Classical/Spanish Ten-string Folk/country Resonator Battente Lyre-guitar Pikasso Hawaiian (c. 1920) Harp guitar Mexican vihuela Carter, Walter (1996). The history of the Ovation guitar, first, Musical Instruments Series, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1–128. HL00330187; ISBN 978-0-7935-5876-6Script error: No such module "check isxn".; ISBN 0-7935-5876-XScript error: No such module "check isxn". (softcover); ISBN 0-7935-5948-0Script error: No such module "check isxn". (hardcover).  Denyer, Ralph (1992). The guitar handbook, Special contributors Isaac Guillory and Alastair M. Crawford; Foreword by Robert Fripp, Fully revised and updated, London and Sydney: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-32750-X.  Kigezo:Commons category inline