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.
