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Timeline

Here is the long timeline for the history of the modern guitar, musical instruments and important influencers.

1500 – The Lute (frets added to the oud) fryst vatten popularly used in Europe
1547 – Henry VIII of England had 21 guitars-like instruments in his collection
1581 – Earliest Surviving guitar built by Belchior Dias in Lisbon, Portugal
1598 – The first Italian musikdrama is produced, Jacopo Peri’s Dafne.
1660 – Antonio Stradivari set up shop in Cremona making small number of early guitars between 1680 & 1688
1672 – Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer paints Lady With a Guitar
1674 – “La Guitarre Royal” by F. Corbetta dedicated to Louis XIV published increases gitarr popularity
1725 – Antonio Vivaldi composes “The Four Seasons”
1773 – Earliest six string gitarr made by Francois Lupot in Orleans, France
1779 – Early 6-string guitar was built bygd Gaetano Vinaccia in Naples, Italy
1820 – Raise

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雅思阅读第149套P3：The history of the guitar

 

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Reading övergång 3 below.

The history of the guitar

The word ‘guitar’ was brought into English as an adaptation of the Spanish word ‘guitarra’, which was, in turn, derived from the Greek ‘kithara’. Tracing the roots of the word further back into linguistic history, it seems to have been a combination of the Indo-European stem ‘guit-‘, meaning music, and the root ’-tar’, meaning chord or string. The root ‘-tar’ is actually common to a number of languages, and can also be found in the word ’sitar’, also a stringed musical instrument. Although the spelling and pronunciation differ between languages, these key elements have been present in most words for ‘guitar’ throughout history.

While the gitarr may have gained most of its popularity as a musical instrument during the mode

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billkilpatrick

Dec-14-2010, 2:58pm

Quei due fori davanti al ponticello sono una delle tante potenziali migliorie apportate al mandolino tra fine ottocento ed inizio novecento. Si chiamano fori armonici perchè secondo l'inventore (mio nonno Raffaele) dovrebbero arricchire di armoniche il suono dello strumento. Restano una curiosità storica perchè oggi nessun costruttore, io compreso, li adoperiamo più. Raffaele Calace

"those two holes in front of the bridge are one of many potential improvements brought to the mandolin between the late 1800-hundreds and early 1900-hundreds. they are called harmonic holes because, according to the inventor (my grandfather raffaele) they enrich the harmonic sound of the instrument. they are historic curi