Baroque guitar

Baroque guitar
	Baroque guitar built by Matteo Sellas,; c. 1630–50
String instrument
Classification	String instrument (plucked)
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.322; (Composite chordophone)
Developed	17th century
Attack	Fast
Related instruments
	List Acoustic guitar; Classical guitar; Chitarra battente; Gittern; Lute; Parlor guitar; Romantic guitar; ;
Musicians
	List David Ryckaert III; Lex Eisenhardt; Eduardo Egüez; Ugo Nastrucci; Andrea Damiani; Massimo Lonardi; James Tyler; Patrick O'Brien; ;

The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string.^[1]

^ Harvey Turnbull, The Guitar (From The Renaissance to the Present Day) (3rd impression 1978), London: Batsford (ISBN 0 7134 3251 9), p. 15: "Early lutes, vihuelas and guitars share one important feature that would have been of practical concern to the player; the frets, unlike the fixed metal frets on the modern guitar, were made of gut and tied round the neck" (Chapter 1 - The Development of the Instrument).

[1] Harvey Turnbull, The Guitar (From The Renaissance to the Present Day) (3rd impression 1978), London: Batsford (ISBN 0 7134 3251 9), p. 15: "Early lutes, vihuelas and guitars share one important feature that would have been of practical concern to the player; the frets, unlike the fixed metal frets on the modern guitar, were made of gut and tied round the neck" (Chapter 1 - The Development of the Instrument).

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String instrument
Baroque guitar built by Matteo Sellas, c. 1630–50
Classification	String instrument (plucked)
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.322 (Composite chordophone)
Developed	17th century
Attack	Fast
Related instruments
List Acoustic guitar Classical guitar Chitarra battente Gittern Lute Parlor guitar Romantic guitar
Musicians
List David Ryckaert III Lex Eisenhardt Eduardo Egüez Ugo Nastrucci Andrea Damiani Massimo Lonardi James Tyler Patrick O'Brien