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The acoustic version has been around since at least the 16th century. So when I first started working with co-curator Gary Sturm on an exhibition about the invention of the electric guitar at the ...
The first written guitar music was published in the 16th century, during a time when guitars still had strings made from animal intestines! Although guitars have a long history, they are still ...
The invention of the guitar dates back to the 14th century in Spain, and looked very different from today’s modern guitars. In the 16th Century guitars only had four strings instead of six and ...
Rock and roll continually pushes musical, social, and cultural boundaries, and the electric guitar is its iconic instrument. The acoustic version has been around since at least the 16th century.
By the 1970s, the classical guitar was enjoying immense popularity – but the ... popular in Europe in the 16th century, and it involved a lot of jumping, leaping and hopping. But what’s unusual about ...
To paraphrase 16th century writer John Lyly ... of a one-sided breakup reactivate with the first intertwined acoustic guitar strums of “Sincerely,” a strident “have a nice life” letter ...
Art historians suggest Picasso chose this angular pose accented by elongated limbs as a nod to the celebrated 16th-century artist ... Because the guitar player is contorted and cramped within ...
This 16th-century monument, one of the last twelve authentic Japanese medieval castles, features some ingenious military architecture behind its elegant artistry. The 'Raven Black Castle' has ...
A 16th-century painting stolen from an English manor house and later recovered at a bus stop has sold for an astonishing $22.3 million. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” is an early work by ...
She’s the artful dodger. The ex-wife of a late British baron refuses to hand over a 16th-century painting that was stolen from an Italian museum more than 50 years ago — even though she “nev ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A rare double bass, crafted from spruce and pear wood in the 16th century, but with a ''subwoofer-like quality'', is the latest ...
FROMBORK, Poland — Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday ...