The history of acoustic Guitar-2
Ancestors in Guitar history: The lute -It was a instrument with a curved back and came in variety of shapes and sizes,and had either 4 or 5 courses and was either strummed with a quill feather.It was a popular instrument for hundreds of years and was passed on from Egyptians to the Greek,then to the Romans who introduced it throughout the Europe. The Oud:When Moors invaded the southern spain in 711AD they brought the oud along with them.I t shared common ancestry with the string instruments of Europe and like oud has a rounded body but unlike oud lacks frets and had a smaller neck. Getting closer:By the end of Renaissance,the lute had evolved and frequently had 20 to 30 strings,but it was slowly falling out of favour.In spain,fretted instruments with similar silhouette of the modern 'Guitar'started appearing around the 15th and 16th century. The first modern guita...