Classical guitar making John Schneider The basis of most "modern" classical guitar designs was developed by Spanish luthier Antonio Torres Jurado in the mid-19th century. Earlier guitars were often smaller bodied (though there are exceptions: Scherzer, Guadagnini, etc.). Torres created a Spanish design, with light materials supported by fan bracing. Torres' fan bracing was influential for modern classical guitars: it consists of wooden strips glued inside the body to provide support and particular deep resonance that is saturated in fundamental. (However, a type of fan bracing was already used before, in some guitars by the Spanish builder Joseph Páges, and after him Louis
Early classical guitar recordings Early classical guitar recordings This article is about early classical guitar recordings. One of the earliest guitar sound recordings was from 1861, before Edison invented the phonograph. It is believed that it was recorded in the western saloon "Two Bulls" in Kansas. The phonograph type invented by Thomas Edison was on 18 July 1877. It used phonograph cylinders as a recording medium. In 1888, Emile Berliner patented his gramophone which used a flat disk – a gramophone record. At first, both mediums were used, but by 1910 the disk replaced the cylinder as the most popular recording medium. (Today the