Classical guitar making which gives these instruments (lutes, early romantic guitars) a type of "inner" vulnerability, lacking in the modern guitars. (In fact there are people who claim that a performer's interpretational style is psychologically related to the instrument's aesthetic; and that this can even be observed in contemporary recordings, e.g., Bach's lute works as performed on lute(with convincing expressive phrasing), versus the markedly different interpretations of these works on the modern classical guitar. Alternately, the Spanish repertoire such as Moreno Torroba, would be completely unfitting, for a lute or early-guitar sound aesthetic.) Even amongst parlor guitar players, there are some that consider
Classical guitar pedagogy journals (e.g. via JSTOR, ProQuest) which simplifies the process of locating relevant data, studies and citations for their own research. Brad Conroy's lesson on simple right hand arppegios Bibliography at the end of the article Classical guitar pedagogy The classical guitar is today a standard instrument that can be studied at music universities and conservatories. Numerous education publications are available, from guitar-related books, to musical style, etc. There are also institutions that offer worldwide graded music exams. Examples include: Articles which consider graded exams in the context of the classical guitar have been written by the EGTA (European Guitar Teachers