The First Guitar - The Birth of the Six-String Guitar (The Romantic Guitar) - History of the Guitar
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2024
- The First Guitar - The Birth of the Six-string Guitar
Presented by Polivios
This video explores the earlier history of the six-string guitar from its origin in the late 18th century, featuring a performance on a guitar from the period.
The common six-string guitar that we are familiar with today has a long history dating back many centuries. From the Renaissance to the Baroque guitar, and eventually with the so-called Romantic guitar in the late 18th century, we see the emergence of the six-string guitar that is most commonly used to this day. To follow the history and development of any instrument is a long and complicated matter, with many details and nuances; this video is a brief introduction to the early history of the guitar and aims to elucidate some of the main features of its evolution.
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Polivios
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The guitar featured in this video is now held in the colllection of the Cantomano Guitar Museum Berlin:
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The guitar was beautifully restored by the luthier Erik Pierre Hofmann:
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Thank you to Jeffrey Wells and the Austin-Marie guitar collection for their outstanding work and allowing to me to use their material. It is an invaluable resource for the history of the guitar. Visit:
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That was excellent! Thank you!
When I started learning the lute a little over a year ago I cut my nails and realized I preferred the sound produced without nails on my classical guitar as well.
Recently I replaced the treble strings on my 1967 classical guitar with gut and it’s never sounded better.
Someday I’d love to own an original 19th century romantic guitar.
Great to hear it, thank you for sharing. If you can acquire a good original 19th instrument it is a groundbreaker, new worlds of sound open up beneath the fingers. Now and then I part with instruments from my collection, feel free to contact me.
Brilliant as always. Great to see you posting more videos.👍☺️
Thank you Ladyhawk! Yes, it has been a long while since I have posted public videos. I have some ambitious ideas for future productions.
I was working in a rich guys house and he had a proto guitar from the 17th century he called a gambe, from the Latin gam = leg, because you held it upright in your lap, on your legs. He let me play it, but it wasn't tuned like a guitar, and I was mostly worried about damaging it so I plucked a few notes and handed it back. I always appreciated that cool rich guy for doing that.
Was it a Gamba tuned mostly in 4ths but not the standard guitar tuning? The Viol de Gamba family is super interesting and the direct ancestor of the double bass (whereas the rest of the orchestra strings come from the violón, you can still see the difference on the inside after the considerable convergent evolution) and was generally tuned in fourths, different ranges depending on the size, with a third not unusual somewhere in the mix
rare rich person W
Thank you very much for this stunning and imperative episode .
Thank you for your comments, you have always taken the time to write and it is much appreciated!
Bravo! Thank you for a fascinating history of the guitar.
“This next song is called Bleed”
Lol
dude some of these licks are so metal
"Soft Metal" more relaxing to the ears...😊
@2drunk2care One of the reasons that metal music is so popular amongst White people is because so much of the music is derived (whether accidentally or deliberately) from European folk or classical - White culture.
@@ministryofanti-feminism1493 Beethoven's 6th or Pastoral Symphony, particularly the thunderstorm is very 1970s Heavy Metal - well vice versa really.
Yeah, listen to Kreutzer violin studies, he stole his best kicks from Van Halen.
yup you slap sum distortion on it and i think he played a Randy riff
Very good and interesting presentation , thanks !
I've always been a fan of parlor guitars, typically the 00 style. So, watching this video was satisfying to see how small it is but how great the sound is.
This!!
Also exactly what I was going to say. My thing is a steel string 12th fret parlour played with bare fingertips but all guitar history is fascinating to me. Splendid video, guitar and playing, many thanks!
Your virtuosity is breathtaking.
Great information, the instruments are awe inspiring. heart attack at 8:02😳
😂
I wonder who owns this guitar
Excellent, informative presentation. Many thanks.
I can’t afford a good guitar but I have a $50 Rogue RA 090 acoustic and I changed the plastic bridge and nut with bone and it made a world of difference. So sweet sounding now
This guitar sounds so beautiful, I prefer this sound to the modern classical guitar, sweet, round, warm sound that flows like magic
Wow, what a beautiful instrument! Very informative video 👏👏👏
Excellent piece of work, man! Congratulations and thank you for this contribution
Such a well done video. Your narration is lucid and your playing is charming. Thank you.
An absolutely wonderful video! The best! ❤
Thank you Alan! Much appreciated kind sir!
I play an anonymous mid 17th century guitar that was converted to 6 string at the Guadagnini shop in the late 18th. I decided to leave the Guadagnini headstock, bridge, and fretboard rather than do a full restoration, but it’s back to double strung five course. Maybe the oldest functioning guitar in North America at least. Amazing sound, box opened at least three times but never beefed up. The playing on this video was very nice
That old of a conversion is worth keeping. Trying to convert it back and deleting its history would kinda ruin its charm imo.
Wonderful video, wonderful playing.
Thanks for this! Astonishing that this humble instrument lends itself to such varied styles from Parkening to Wes Montgomery to Jimi H. Wow.
Very very good video! 👍🏻
Well done, Polivios. Very well presented. I'm curious about your bass strings. Aquila D-type? Kurschner?
Thank you Rob! It means a lot from you. You are a true stalwart of the community whose work and contribution has had an inestimable impact!
The bass strings are custom copper-wound silk strings from the luthier Steffen Milbradt who with Caroline Zillman run www.music-strings.de taking over from the recently passed Matthias Wagner.
There is an interesting story about the gut trebles. They are actually really old original gut strings. Not too long ago I purchased a 19th century guitar from an antique dealer (who knew nothing of guitars) online, and when it arrived there was a leather satchel inside the body of the guitar completely packed with unused fully intact sets of gut strings! I have spent a good deal of time comparing them with other contemporary gut manufacturers and there has been no rival to them yet! Along with the gut strings are original silk trebles, which are very interesting with a crisp bright beautiful sound. Once cleaned up the guitar was an exceptional instrument too!
@@PoliviosMusic Many thanks for the nice comments, Polivios. I have recently retired, so it is great to see so many good and great players coming through with no-nails playing, gut strings, etc, etc. Your playing is fantastic, and I wish you well for the future! As for those bass, strings, I will contact Steffen in the near future (once I get a house move finished!). And I loved reading your story of the guitar and the original strings. Silk trebles sounds interesting! I hope Steffen can make accurate copies of both the gut and the silk strings. Best wishes, Rob.
Congratulations from Brazil! Excellent video! Congratulations!
Thank you for making this video. It’s interesting to see and hear how the first 6 string guitars were built and sounded.
very happy for you. beautiful guitar. in the future I would also like a romantic guitar)
These are questions I was wondering about. Thanks. The six string guitar is my favorite instrument.
Such a magnificent instrument! A very worthy exploration of it's construction (love the fluting on the back of the neck) and the different sounds it can produce. Also amazingly generous of you to pass on the guitar to a wonderful museum! Once again Also a brilliant editing job done!
Yes, a beauty indeed! Thank you for sharing your comment. Part 2 is now available - "The last guitar".
I enjoyed this tremendously! Thank you!
Excellent class. I bet insurance executives jumped when that instrument went in the air.
That was beautiful and informative at the same time.
Wondered Alot about the things you said in your video.glad to learn .and just beautiful playing.
Stunning instruments and your playing is amazing. Very informative video. Than you for the history lesson.
Great video, and wonderful playing! I really connected to a lot of excerpted pieces here and would love it if you posted what they are. I tried to find similar pieces by listening to various 19th Century guitar composers, but most things I heard were in a classical style that I just don't appreciate.
it would be so criminal to play smoke on the water with that guitar.
Now im not saying you should but it would be *funny*
Freebird!!! 🦅🔥
😂
Omg. I was hoping dude would play some well known rock riff just as a random goof. Damn.
Now, I wanna hear how smoke on the water or seven nation army would sound like with this kind of guitar.
amazing video, i've learned a lot !
Does anyone know the name of the song he plays at 1:30?
Great video, glad this made on my recommended. Could listen to him play for hours, truly gifted.
This dude sounds like a 17th guitar saleman. Love it!
I would love to see(and hear) his reaction to playing a 1920s or 30s National metal resonator (my main axe) which is obviously MUCH more modern. Im so used to people being blown away that my guitar is almost 100 years old, but this is another level 😂
That neck joint is beautiful!
Thanks for the heads up.l love 💓 guitars
Very interesting video. Really nice playing too.
Wonderful and informative video. Being an almost exclusively Romantic guitar builder these days, I will post a link on my site. I hope there are more productions of this quality and caliber in the future!
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Indeed, feel free to share it. Yesterday I released the second part - "The last Guitar" - Which looks at the continued development and innovations of the guitar in the 19th century.
I looked at your website. The Lacote models look fantastic 👍
What a great and complete video! Thank you!
This is fantastic content!
SHAFFIE! Miss you brother. I hope you are well!
Felicidades, excelente video y excelente contenido, muy bien explicado. Es un periodo de la historia de la guitarra que a mi particularmente me fascina. Ojalá puedas hacer mas contenidos de este tipo, le harias un gran bien a la humanidad.
Matiegka's Fantasia and then his Sonata, wow!
Superb playing! I'm also surprised at the quality of the tone.
This gentleman speaks like a villain, and I wish to be one of his henchmen.
Thank You....
Keith richards first guitar
😂😂🤣
Yes he is that old👍
Keef has a likeness for loosing a string!
man it sounds amazing
This one made me a subscriber. Thank you for this. 🎉
Great video. Love the history!
Very beautiful sound , guitar, and a great playing ! 💝💖😽
The baroque guitar appears......out of nowhere? Vihuela/Lute dichotomy? Wonderful playing, beautiful instruments, revisionist history.
great video thx for this. thing sounds amazing
That was most enlightening, though I did know some of it I was not so aware of the timing of the changes to the Renaissance Guitar at the time. I'd really like to have a Torres original or an earlier luthier's work such as you displayed and explained so well in your video. It's a pipe dream though, I'm 58, broke so I can't see it happening. I'll make do with my '71 Ramirez 1A.
Great video, great work,
Thank you.
Your chanell will explode in numbers very soon!
Excellent documentary ❤ subbed🔥
The tone of that little guitar is incredible.z
...and then one day in 1967, at the Astoria Theatre in London, Hendrix sets fire to his guitar for the first time
Because it was a Fender which never stayed in tune.
@@that_thing_I_do you make no sense
@rodnyg7952 when you use the whammy bar on a fender stratocaster, the changing tension causes the tuning pegs to go out of tune. Some guitars use a locking nut to prevent this from happening but the stratocaster doesn’t have a locking nut so it does go out of tune particularly if you use the whammy bar like hendrix did. It makes perfect sense.
@@greenriverrecordings8487 that all depends more on how well the tremolo is set up with the correct floating system at the bridge, springs, and nut. Fact is, the Strat tremolo wasn't designed for Hendrix dive-bombs. It was intended for light flutters to mimic reverb
@rodnyg7952 I don’t know man I prefer a hard tail bridge, they are more stable and you can still make wiggly sounds if thats whats called for.
P.s. this is my first time engaging in discourse in any comments section and its a thrill. I Love reading the comments sections for all the crazy things random people on the internet say.
This is a beautiful video, i can feel your passion for the instrument through the screen.
Wow what a beautiful guitar, thank you for the historical information❤
A very interesting and well documented account. Thank you!
Fascinating.
Thank you for a very nice video with wonderful playing! And by the way, I must have such an outfit as well when playing my old guitar.
Awesome! Nice video, nice research, very nice playing. Congratulations!
Great video. So interesting.
Bravo Maestro 👏👏👏🦇🎸
An excellent video in so many ways. Bravo!
Hi I find your voice very relaxing, great video. Classical guitar is my passion. I would love to have some of these beautiful older guitars if I could ever afford them...
Thanks ..very interesing .. :)
Pantur from grand Babylon is the first guitar. Awesome video!
Great intonation on that thing!
GREAT!!!THANKS!!!!!!
Dictate my life in words your voice and pacing is godly!
Plot twist, _he's_ *older* than The Romantic Guitar. 🦇🧛🏻♂️
God bless you for this great video. I really learned alot from you. I love guitar alot. I too have four guitars amongst them is Grand suzuki classical guitar.
Thank you! That is very much appreciated. You can also watch part 2 here: ua-cam.com/video/tHY3eoRnLS8/v-deo.html
Amazing sound from that small guitar body
sounds realy good, imagine picking jazz bebop lines on this thing. the tone is asking for it
Great video thank you! Maybe you could discuss early tuning and specifically on the one in this video.. was each guitar tuned differently, how close to concert pitch or c tuning were they and where did they start? At the low e?
Thank you!
Generally in practice there is an accepted standard of tuning 19th century guitars about a semitone lower at A 415.
Be sure to check out part 2!
ua-cam.com/video/tHY3eoRnLS8/v-deo.html
Aguado and Carruli are my bread and butter for practicing
What a fantastic video! Bravo! 😀
Looks like Paul McCartney (also Lefthanded) at 3:41
That guitar sounds amazing
"Tuned to an even lower pitch" 9:15, that's interesting, we often hear of drop tunings, be it even 1 semitone for Eb, but we never talk about tuning up 1+ semitones, who tunes up to F tuning (or more)? so I think the guitar today is, for some reason, tuned up as high as it should go, which I find odd, you would think the median of tunings would be the standard... ie. if people tune from D-E, than wouldn't Eb be more standard, vs. using the highest in the tuning range. I always think guitars sound better, resonate better, pitched down a little.. maybe it's the ability to use a higher gauge string, the higher tensions, etc. but even if a guitar is playing the same notes as a standard (playing UP 1-2 frets) there is a sound about them that I find more interesting. I also never knew gut was used for the original frets, that's fascinating!! Beautiful thing about guitar is you can play/study them for decades and still learn, experiment and explore them.
Could someone please list pieces played?
First song is called. Your mom
Second song. Loves my guitar fingers
@@anthonyqueenmusic7523 Thank you!! I look for those on Spotify.
Amazing sounds also the guitarist
This dude can play his arse off. Damn he's good.
What's this with the tie on bridge being universally replaced?
Aren't the peg/pin bridges almost exclusive to steel string guitars?
Early plucked instruments such as lutes, renaissance and baroque guitars, all used a tie-on bridge, the so-called Romantic guitar of the 19th century adopted the use of bridge pins, but for the most part the Spanish guitar tradition was unique in its continued use of the tie-on bridge. Later the Spanish guitar came to prominence once more, most famously with the instruments of the master luthier Antonio de Torres, bringing with it the return of the tie-on bridge.
Alongside this storu, there is another story of the steel string guitar and its emergence, primarily in the American tradition. For that story we need to look at the work of C.F. Martin, who is likely the single most important builder in the early American tradition, a disciple of Stauffer he emigrated from Austria to America bringing with him the Viennese/Stauffer guitar building tradition, and the use of bridge pins. Such guitars would later be metal strung with the continued use of pins.
What a sound!
Let’s not act like they didn’t shred back then! That flamenco picking with the whole hand and all the fingers in synced is bonkers!
Excellent!
Thank you!
Its interesting to know that the only language in which gui+ tar has a meaning is Persian.
Tar( string or strand like a tar of hair ,or tar of a spider which is still widly used in Iran)
Gui or key meant big in old Persian.
There are other instruments still played till today like tar,se tar,and do tar. Se :3 do :2
We getting out of the middle ages with this one
Bravo.
What is the history of the guitar pick please if you will. I love your videos!
You would make a good replacement for James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio.