Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About... GUITARS
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A Brief History of the Guitar To say where a lute - or any of the other dozens of similar instruments - leaves off and the guitar begins is an impossible exercise. Guitar-like instruments have been uncovered in archaeological digs and documents as far back as Ancient Egypt and Babylonia almost 4,000 years ago. But these bear only a general resemblance to our modern instrument. The length of the neck is shorter, the body smaller and the number of