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Classical Guitars â A Short History
Classical Guitars – A Short History
What makes a guitar “classical� The traditional classical guitar is an acoustic (nonelectric) instrument with six strings but there are some models with eight or more. Both classical guitars and acoustic guitars have the same basic design and shape, have six strings, and are tuned in the same manner. The main difference is the width of the fret board, which is much wider on classical guitars. The treble strings (high E, B, and G) are usually made of nylon on classical guitars, while all strings on an acoustic guitar are made of metal. A classical guitarist uses his fingers to play rather than a pick.
The name classical guitar does not imply that only classical pieces are performed on it, although classical music is an important part of the guitar’s history. Rather, all kinds of music (folk, alternative, jazz, flamenco, etc.) are played on it today.
In the 19th century, a solo guitarist would usually perform as part of an ensemble in small concert venues. Eventually, professional soloists would perform recitals to big audiences in larger venues. Guitar makers began looking for ways to make the concert guitar louder. This search perhaps started with the Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres Jurado in the late 19th century.
The classical guitar is sometimes called the "Spanish guitar" because Torres, working with Juilian Arcos, essentially redesigned the material, the shape, and the construction of the guitar. The changes Torres made modified the tone and increased the volume by increasing the size of the soundbox. Francisco Tarrega (1852 -1909) pioneered the new techniques employed by concert guitarists, including the positioning of the guitar on the player’s left knee, correct placement of hands, and methods for plucking the guitar (usually with the back of one’s fingernails).
Andres Segovia (1893-1987) took up the cause of the classical, or concert, guitar and established groundbreaking new methods to make the guitar’s sound carry in large areas such as concert halls. His techniques so beautifully demonstrated the guitar's astonishing flexibility and its outstanding spectrum of timbre and tone that many composers who previously had ignored the classical guitar began writing music specifically for it. Far from being possessive of his innovations, Segovia welcomed whatever improvements fellow luthiers could come up with to make the classical guitar a more consistent and more influential instrument.
The tone of classical guitars embodies romance and profound emotion. The nylon strings produce sounds that are warm and mature in expression. For example, flamenco, a style of classical guitar playing, is beautifully expressive with its lively rhythms and colorful melodies.  Classical guitar arrangements are often technically complicated but extraordinarily expressive and soulful as a result.
About the Author
Miles Roberts is a passionate classical guitar enthusiast who deals rare classical guitars across the world.
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The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected Stories (Halcyon Classics) List Price: |
DescriptionThis Halcyon Classics ebook contains 99 short stories and novellas by 1930s pulp writer Robert Ervin Howard. Howard (1906-1936) is best known today for creating the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan, subject of two movies and dozens of books... |
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The Classic Mystery Collection (100+ books and stories) List Price: |
DescriptionWith ATOC (active table of contents):An Historical Mystery Honore De BalzacThe Thirty-Nine Steps John BuchanThe Baron's Quarry Egerton CastleTrent's Last Case Edmund Clerihew BentleyGilbert Keith ChestertonThe Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRiddle of the Sands Robert Erskine ChildersAgatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Secret AdversaryWilkie CollinsThe Dream WomanThe Haunted HotelThe MoonstoneThe Queen of HeartsThe Woman in WhiteThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles DickensArthur Conan DoyleThe Mystery of CloomberThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Return of Sherlock HolmesMemoirs of Sherlock HolmesA Study in ScarletThe Sign of the FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearHis Last BowAnna Katharine GreenAgatha WebbInitials OnlyThe Millionaire BabyThe Mill MysteryThe Mystery of the Hasty ArrowA Strange DisappearanceThe Rome Express Arthur GriffithsThe Three Strangers Thomas HardyElusive Isabel Jacques FutrelleThe Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston LerouxThe Lodger Marie Belloc LowndesThe Red House Mystery Alan Alexander MilneEdgar Allan PoeThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Mystery of Marie RogetThe Purloined LetterThe Bittermeads Mystery Ernest Robertson PunshonMary Roberts RinehartThe BatThe Circular StaircaseThe ConfessionDangerous DaysThe Man in Lower TenThe Street of Seven StarsSax RohmerBat WingThe Hand Of Fu-ManchuThe Return of Dr... |
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) List Price: |
DescriptionRobert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation—available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery... |
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Harvard Classics, Vol. 06: Poems and Songs, Burns List Price: |
DescriptionThe most lauded poet of Scotland, Burns had a love of his nation’s songs, like Auld Lang Syne, which has been infectious ever since the world over. The musical highland dialect in the 557 works is translated in a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases. |
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Nora Roberts Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) List Price: |
DescriptionThe #1 New York Times bestselling author “continues to celebrate the healing power of love and family” (Publishers Weekly) in these novels of four brothers navigating life and romance on the eastern shore of Maryland... |
Who should play freddy in the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street?
Robert Englund already stated he was too old and kind of done with Freddy. So now with the Remake of Halloween done, the remake of Friday the 13th getting ready to come out, Nightmare is getting ready to film but no one knows who will play freddy. To me it can not be anyone famous because I don't think there is anyone out there is as cool as Robert Engulnd what do you think?
Im pretty upset they are remaking all the classics just to get more people in the franchise...it makes me sad.
lol.. its the voice that makes that particular character (I mean look at Englund..B movie actor all the way.) and the face..well its all burnt up 99% of the time.. so how about Rob Zombie...he has a good voice for the job...
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