There is a question I regularly ask my students because it’s one I ask myself. Who looked at a tree and thought it could or should be a guitar? Did you ever think about that?
Which leads to the next question: When did that happen and where?
It is said that a plucked stringed instrument that closely resembles a guitar can be seen in a picture painted around 3,000 B.C. in Egypt. That doesn’t mean that it was then first though does it? We will have to explore.
Ted Mann is a widely acclaimed multi- instrumentalist and award winning composer from New Hampshire. He has been on the music faculty at Keene State College in New Hampshire for many years. As an instrumentalist he performs on the classical, electric, baroque and romantic guitars as well as the lute. As a composer he works in many genres and is commissioned regularly for chamber and electro-acoustic music. See more at www.tedmann.net and www.facebook.com/TedMannNH.