When was the Guitar invented?

raman   December 18, 2011   Comments Off on When was the Guitar invented?

The first guitar of six strings was invented in 1779 by Gaetano Vinaccia in Naples in Italy. In the 1850’s, Antonio Torres Jurado in Seville invented the first Classical guitars or Spanish guitars. George Beauchamp invented the first electric guitar and in the year 1932, the electric lap steel guitar was marketed by Beauchamp’s Ro-pat company.

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guitar inventor Antonio Torres Jurado