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 Augusta Triumphans, by Daniel Defoe

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performers on all instruments have sprung up in England within these few years? That this is owing to the opera I will not deny, and so far the opera is an academy, as it refines

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