Guitar History
Don't know if they've invented it, but they've likely become the closest to perfecting the playing of it.....I give you.....Paco De Lucia.....
It looks like Spain created the first guitar, Italy created the first 6 string/with standard tuning, Spain created the first modern shaped guitar, German/American created the first steel guitar, Swiss/American created the first electric guitar.
The exact origins of the guitar are unclear, but many people have contributed to its development over the centuries.
Early guitar development
- Early versions: Developed in Greece, Turkey, Persia, and Africa.
- Arabic oud: Brought to Spain by the Moors, Muslim inhabitants of Northern Africa. Europeans added frets to this instrument and called it a "lute".
- Greek lyre: Some scholars argue this is the beginning of the guitar family tree.
Modern guitar development
- Christian Frederick Martin: A German immigrant to the United States who created the first guitar that most resembles the acoustic guitars we still buy today in the 1930s.
- Gaetano Vinaccia: An Italian luthier credited for discovering the first six stringed guitar.
- Antonio Torres Jurado: Credited as one of the most important inventors in the history of guitar.
- Adolph Rickenbacker: Co-founded the famous company Rickenbacker guitars.
Other guitar inventors
- Robert F. Flemming Jr. Invented the guitar-like instrument "Euphonica".
- Roger C. Field Designed and built an electric guitar with a folding neck called the "Foldaxe" for Chet Atkins.
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The first 6th string guitar was made in the year 1779. Almost 200 years later an Italian male, Gaetano Vinaccia, was working on something and then created the first ever six string guitar. Gaetano Vinaccia was a stringed instrument maker who was born in 1759 and died in 1831. Ever since that everyone ditched the four string and got the 6th string acoustic. There is one problem with it. It was way too fat and wide so that when you played it, it felt so uncomfortable. It looked like an hourglass. But it was better to play and then came standard tuning which is EADGBE. People at that point were playing it a lot to make folk songs."
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The first ever guitar was made in Spain way back in the 15th century. Made from wood they put four strings like a bass but two strings have the same tune and the other two strings have a different tune."
"After 58 years, Antonio de Torres Jurado, a Spanish guitarist was thinking of how he could make the guitar better than it originally was.
In 1817, he made it the first modern acoustic guitar."
"Flash forward 115 years into the further from 1817. Flash forward 115 years into the further from 1817. Adolph Rickenbacker was an electrical engineer who immigrated from Switzerland in the year 1891 after his parents death. Who knew when he immigrated he would make one of the best inventions in the world. When he first made it, many of jazz bands would buy it because jazz was the most popular song genre during the 30s. But if Adolph didn’t make the electric guitar then ¨Thunderstruck,¨ ¨Smells Like Teen Spirit,¨ ¨All The Small Things¨ would not have ever happened. "
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