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Fact: The Spanish guitar spread to other European countries including Portugal, England, France and Italy. A 1547 inventory of King Henry VIII of England included 21 guitars in his collection of musical instruments.
Fact: The name of the inventor of the Guitar is unknown but it is believed to have been invented in Ancient Persia (now Iran) around 1500 BC.
Fact: A German-born American called Christian Fredrich Martin in 1873 was a luthier (guitar and violin maker) who specialized in repairing guitars. In the 1920's Christian Fredrich Martin began making steel string acoustic guitars with X-braced tops. The Martin steel-string guitars replaced the traditional catgut strings.
Fact: In 1859 the Spanish guitarist Antonio Torres Jurado invented the modern "classical" guitar improving the volume, tone and projection of the instrument. Most of the acoustic guitars used today originated from his designs.
Fact: The first guitars evolved in Spain during the 13th century and were known as the 'gutarre latine' and featured strikingly in-curving sides.
Fact: In the 1900's guitars became the dominant musical instrument in popular music from the early days of jazz to the advent of rock and roll, especially by Chuck Berry in St. Louis.
Fact: In 1936 the Patent for the electric guitar (called the electro Spanish guitar, a hollow-body electric guitar) was given. The Rickenbacker company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and eventually produced a range of electric guitars and bass guitars.
Fact: 1300 BCE, the Greeks take the guitar with them as they travel across trade routes, spreading it's popularity.
Fact: In the 15th century, the Portuguese take the guitar with them as they explored Western Africa, in places like Mali and Ghana.