Classical guitar was playing in concerts around the world, popularizing his modern classical guitar, as well as a new style of music in the 1920s: Spanish romantic-modern style with guitar works by Moreno Torroba, de Falla, etc. Some people consider it to have been this influence of Segovia which led to the domination of the Torres instrument. Factories all over the world began producing them in large numbers. It was the 19th century classical guitarist Francisco Tárrega who first popularized the Torres design as a classical solo instrument. Composers of the Renaissance period who wrote for four course guitar include Alonso Mudarra,
Classical guitar making Classical guitar making A person who is specialized in the making of stringed instruments such as guitars, lutes and violins is called a luthier. In general one can distinguish three main aspects of guitar making: Fernando Sor has written that an instrument-maker ""should be an accurate draughtsman, understand the common principles of mechanics, the composition and resolution of forces, and the laws of vibrating strings and surfaces"". This shaping of the wood is known as "resonance plate tuning" (or "plate tuning"). It refers to a comprehensive tuning of the wood and bracing (its density, thickness, tension, sound-influence) to influence the