Maple and Rosewood were common on guitars from 1800 and older, and Torres built with maple, rosewood, and cypress as did other builders of his day. Tarrega's guitar was maple back and …

2020年10月2日 · Around this time, the instrument as we know it today with six single strings was just becoming established in Europe as luthiers increasingly shifted away from building the …

Most experts agree the single-course, 6-string guitar began to appear commonly around the 1790's as several extant instruments prove. By 1800 it became widespread and popular, and …

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1800 – Guitars finally abandoned extravagant shapes and started taking form of modern guitars. 1890 – Spanish guitarist Antonio Torres Jurado managed to craft an acoustic guitar that is …

2021年6月10日 · Most Martin guitars that have survived from 1840 to 1841 period have Stauffer tuners or pegheads with friction pegs. This guitar illustrates the earliest use of Jerome tuners …

2018年9月25日 · In December of 2017, Vintage Instruments in Philadelphia mounted an exhibit of 35 Martin Guitars made in New York and Nazareth from c.1834 until c.1867, including several …

2021年6月24日 · borders of pearl Martins until WWII replacing the rows of tiny pearl diamonds found on the finer Martins of the mid-1800's, and an abalone pendant similar to the ones …

2023年5月18日 · Remaining at the forefront of guitar evolution since the mid-1800s with innovations such as X-bracing, larger body sizes, steel strings and 14-fret necks, Martin has …

The full-sized guitars of the 1800s were just fine for their intended purposes, but when string bands with banjos and fiddles came along, they couldn't keep up in volume, so companies like …