A guitar is provided which has a guitar neck. At least the fretboard of the neck is made of a high-density bamboo, that is, a compressed grass, instead of a wood. The guitar may be an electric guitar. In an alternative, the entire neck can also be made of high-density bamboo. The high-density bamboo is planed from compressed raw strips horizontally or vertically glued together and pressed to form high-density bamboo, known as HDG bamboo or strand woven bamboo. The frets on the fretboard are inserted into milled grooves in the fretboard in the usual manner. The curvature between the guitar neck and the guitar head can be produced by bending a single-piece wooden workpiece after steaming so that the wood fibres running along the guitar neck run continuously into the guitar head.