Although the spelling and pronunciation differs between languages, these key elements are present in most words for guitar throughout history. The root tar is actually common to a number of languages, and can also be found in the word sitar, also a stringed musical instrument. Tracing the roots of the word further back into linguistic history, it seems to have been a combination of the Indo-European stem guit, meaning music, and the root tar meaning chord or string. The word guitar was brought into English as an adaptation of the Spanish word guitarra, which was, in turn, derived from the Greek kithara. It is a good 'personal' instrument, yet it combines easily with others and with other instruments - as indeed this CD illustrates. It is portable, and capable of producing harmony as well as single-line melody.

Laurindo Almeida, Guitar / Virginia Majewski, Violaĭ espite the familiarity of the guitar today, it is in fact one of the earliest known instruments for the performance of both 'classical' and popular folk music, and guitar-like instruments have been in existence in numerous cultures throughout the world for more than five thousand years.

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