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Guitar’s character

The classical guitar is characterized by:its shape, construction and material — modern classical guitar shape, or historic classical guitar shapes. A guitar family tree can be identified. The flamenco guitar is derived from the modern classical, but has differences in material, construction and sound. Its strings — today primarily nylon, the bass-strings additionally being wound with a thin metal thread.The instrumental technique — the individual strings are usually plucked with the fingers or the fingernails — plectra are rarely used .Its historic repertoire, though this is of lesser importance, since any repertoire can be and is played on the guitar. The name classical guitar does not mean that only classical repertoire is performed on it, although classical music is a part of the instrument’s core repertoire, instead all kinds of music can be and are performed on it. The term modern classical guitar is sometimes used to distinguish the classical guitar from older forms of guitar that are also sometimes called classical. Many luthiers today also build these older forms of “classical” guitars . If you have any interest on guitar,learn it,not so hard and you’ll enjoy it.

classical guitar instruction

The classical guitar, is a plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones. It traditionally has 3 plain gut bass strings and 3 gut wound silk core treble strings and the modern adaption typically has 6 nylon strings . The basic characteristics of the shape of the modern classical guitar were established by the nineteenth century Spanish luthier Antonio Torres Jurado. Hence the modern classical guitar is sometimes called “Spanish guitar” — due to its origins.
The classical guitar has a long history and here is the some great men in the classical guita’s history.
Robert de Visée (1650 – 1725) with French Court music for baroque guitar and lute. He was the guitar player of Louis XIV of France at the court of Versailles. His works are influenced by hearing Jean-Baptiste de Lully (1632 – 1687) who was also engaged at the court of Louis XIV.
Mauro Giuliani (1781 – 1829) with Italian/Viennese classical music for the 19th century so-called early romantic guitar. He was chamber-virtuoso of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. Some of his works include strong influences from his visits to 19th century opera performances.
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) of Spain. His intimate salon-style music, is both romantic in character and includes charming character-pieces such as polkas and walzes. He even played for the Queen of Spain, Isabel II. From 1869, Tárrega used a guitar by Antonio de Torres (1817-1892), an instrument whose design is somewhat similar to today’s modern classical guitar.
Agustín Barrios (1885 – 1944) from Paraguay, towards the end of his life using a modern classical guitar (his last instrument was a gift from Queen Eugenia of Spain in 1935[2]). His music is romantic in style, with some works showing strong folkloric Paraguayan influences, shaped from his cultural background.
Sergei Orekhov(1935 – 1998) with music for Russian 7-string guitar. In his compositions and arrangements he pulls inspiration from his intimate knowledge of traditional Russian folk music and folk songs.