2010年3月2日

Guitar History

Today, I want to share some knowledge about widely used and well know music instrument – the guitar.
Although, it is quite difficult to find someone who doesn’t know about it, in some sense much less people know about it history, origins and usage.

The guitar had its primitive origins in the ancient Near East.
Clay plaques excavated from Babylonia, dated circa 1850 B.C., show figures playing musical instruments, some bearing a general resemblance to a guitar and having a distinctly differentiated body and neck.
Later evidence from ancient Egypt indicates a necked instrument with marked frets about the neck. A stringed instrument from ancient Rome incorporates a wood soundboard with five groups of small sound holes.

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