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He sought advice from the leading classical guitarists of the time, notably Andrés Segovia and Narciso Yepes, both of them players of Ramírez six-string guitars. Eventually, they came up with a ten-string guitar. [4] Yepes' standard tuning for the 10-string guitar
Ten-string classical guitar of Yepes. In 1964, Yepes performed the Concierto de Aranjuez with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, premièring the ten-string guitar, which he invented in collaboration with the renowned guitar maker José Ramírez III. [15] Yepes's 10-string guitar tuning
In January 2009, Gadotti Guitars announced the 10 String Nylon King Electric, a solid body, nylon-stringed ten-string guitar, suitable for both Yepes and other tunings such as the Baroque. [ 6 ] A ten-string jazz guitar by Mike Shishkov, based on the ten-string extended-range classical guitar, was demonstrated at the 3rd International Ten ...
The Yepes 10-string guitar adds four strings (resonators) tuned in such a way that they (along with the other three bass strings) can resonate in sympathy with any of the 12 chromatic notes (or their primary harmonics) that can occur on the higher strings; the idea behind this being an attempt at enhancing and balancing sonority.
Second, it is a well-established fact that RAMIREZ and Yepes invented his ten-string guitar. As I said, Bernabe was an apprentice at the Ramirez shop then, but the first Yepes-type ten-string guitar was a RAMIREZ guitar. Moreover, Ramirez had the idea to construct a guitarra d'amor with multiple string resonators INSIDE the body of the guitar.
This is the present confusion brought on by dearth of information, or otherwise the ubiquitous availability of disinformation, or people playing Romantic 10-string guitars that look like modern 10-string guitars. But the fact is, the modern 10-string guitar was invented by Narciso Yepes and it has ONE STANDARD tuning.
After Victor buffed up the article I was going to suggest moving it to Yepes 10-string guitar or Modern 10-string guitar and editing Ten-string guitar to {{main article}} the Yepes/Modern version. FWIW, I don't think we should be inventing brand new terms which is what "Ten-string extended-range classical guitar" seems to be.
File: Narciso Yepes' reentrant tuning for the ten-string guitar.jpg