Guitar, 1797, Madrid, Spain, Spanish, Spruce or fir top, cypress back and ribs, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and frets, ebony nut, gut strings, Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted, Benito Sanchez de Aguilera (Spanish, Madrid, active 1790–1800), This is the only known guitar made by the Spanish luthier Benito Sanchez de Aguilera who was active in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The guitar has six double-courses of strings, a transitional style between the five double-course guitars of the baroque and the six single string guitars that became popular in the early nineteenth century and remain the standard to this day
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