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2. English guitar - Wikipedia

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   The English guitar or guittar (also citra) is a stringed instrument – a type of cittern – popular in many places in Europe from around 1750–1850. It is unknown when the identifier "English" became connected to the instrument: at the time of its introduction to Great Britain, and during its period of popularity, it was apparently simply known as guitar or guittar.

3. Portuguese guitar - Wikipedia

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   Método de Guitarra Portuguesa Vol. 1: Bases para a Guitarra de Coimbra. Portugal: Paulo Soares. ISBN 972-97496-0-4. — Basic techniques for the Portuguese Coimbra Guitar (in Portuguese) Soares, Paulo (2007). Método de Guitarra Portuguesa, Vol. 2: Domínio dos Acordes. Portugal: Paulo Soares. ISBN 978-972-97496-1-2. — Chord building (in ...

4. Guitar - Wikipedia

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   The modern word guitar and its antecedents have been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times, sometimes causing confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) [6] and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek ...

5. Guitarrón mexicano - Wikipedia

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   The guitarrón is usually played by doubling notes at the octave, a practice facilitated by the standard guitarrón tuning A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3 E 3 A 2. Unlike a guitar, the pitch of the guitarrón strings does not always rise as strings move directionally downward from the lowest-pitched string (A 2 , which is the 6th string from the lowest-pitched ...

6. Bajo sexto - Wikipedia

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   The bajo sexto (Spanish: "sixth bass") is a Mexican string instrument from the guitar family with 12 strings in six double courses.. It is played in a similar manner to the guitar, with the left hand changing the pitch with the frets on a fingerboard while the right hand plucks or strums the strings with or without a pick.

7. Cancionero de Baena - Wikipedia

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   The Cancionero de Baena ("Songbook of Baena") was compiled between around 1426 to 1430 by the Marrano Juan Alfonso de Baena for the king John II of Castile and the Constable of Castile Álvaro de Luna. Its full title is Cancionero del Judino Juan Alfonso de Baena. It includes works by 56 poets, each briefly introduced, who were writing from ...

8. Il Canzoniere - Wikipedia

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   After printing, early versions of the Canzoniere were illuminated with pictures. Il Canzoniere (Italian pronunciation: [il kantsoˈnjɛːre]; English: Song Book), also known as the Rime Sparse (English: Scattered Rhymes), but originally titled Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (English: Fragments of common things, that is Fragments composed in vernacular), is a collection of poems written in the ...

9. Tomatito - Wikipedia

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   José Fernández Torres (born Fondón, 1958), known professionally as Tomatito, is a Spanish roma flamenco guitarist and composer. Having started his career accompanying famed flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla (with Paco de Lucía), he has made a number of collaborative albums and six solo albums, two of which have won Latin Grammy Awards.