Early Martin Guitars

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I've learned that the instruments produced under C.F. Martin Sr. in his first dozen or so years in America and his 22 year old grandson Frank Henry Martin, who led the company for

A Brief History of the Guitar

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The earliest stringed instruments known to archaeologists are bowl harps and tanburs . Since prehistory people have made bowl harps using tortoise shells and calabashes as resonat

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ancient Chinese Account Of The Grand Canyon, or Course of the Colorado, by Alexander M'Allan. </title

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(for all are stringed instruments.) The very volume which places lutes and lyres in the Great Canyon, also tells of a forest elsewhere, which is a "Forest of Lutes and Lyres" (not

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