The document discusses the origins and evolution of the guitar. It traces the guitar's ancestry to stringed instruments from ancient civilizations like the Hittites and Assyrians. There are two hypotheses about its origins - one tracing it to Greco-Roman instruments and the other believing it was introduced to Iberia by Arabs. It also lists different types of guitars including acoustic, classical, flamenco, archtop, electric, resonator guitars and more.
3. BIOGRAPHY
• The origins and evolution of the guitar are unclear, since many similar
instruments were used in ancient times, so it is usual to follow the path of this
instrument through pictorial and sculptural representations found throughout
history. There is archaeological evidence found in carvings in Alaca Huyuk
(north of Turkey) that around 1000 BC. Hittites and Assyrians created stringed
instruments like the lyre, the instrument of many strings simplest and oldest in
the world, but with the addition of a sounding board, so it would be ancestors
of the guitar.
• There are two hypotheses about its origins. One source gives a Greco-Roman
and claimed to be a descendant of the fidícula and the other believes that the
guitar is an instrument introduced by the Arabs during the Muslim conquest of
the Iberian peninsula and later evolved in Spain.