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Probably no other musical instrument is as popular around the world as the guitar. Musicians use the guitar for almost every kind of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.
Music experts do not agree about where the guitar first was played. Most agree it is
ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago.
Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the
twelfth century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we
know today.
Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violinist Niccolo Paganinni played and
wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works.
In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.
In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting with ways to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid body
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