Noticing this desire Darren was gifted his first electric guitar with a small Marshall amp by his uncle. As time passed Darren jammed with friends one of which included Joel Renbourn son of folk guitar legend, John Renbourn of the 60’ & 70’s band Pentangle. The pair would jam most days and come to play live at the odd local pub with other musicians.ĭarrens fascination with the audio technology that emerged during the late 80’s into the 90’s was overwhelming his desire to play guitar. With a staple diet of Rhythm & Blues, Funk’n’Soul, and Disco from his mother an avid collector of vinyl, to the Blues, Folk and Heavy Rock of his father's collection. Darren then yearned to play along with his favourite albums. Inspired by his uncle, Jon Machin a guitarist and music producer throughout the late 60’s and into the 90’s.Īs a youth, Darren would browse his parent's record collection in search of music to stir his heart and soul. Today, after more than 2000 years of widespread use across the entire world, guitar represents one of the two most popular musical instruments in the world (together with Piano), managing to inspire each new generation of musicians.Darren has always held a strong passion for music and audio technology. The introduction of electric guitars in the 1930s and their incredible popularization in 1950s by the numerous rock musicians propelled guitars into the height of their popularity. With the 20th century came the expansion of electromagnetism, which profoundly influenced the landscape of modern guitar history. His designs of acoustic guitars are today regarded as the basis of every “modern acoustic guitar” which are played all around the world. As soon as the popularity of violin is faded, a modern acoustic guitar that we know and use today was introduced by the hands of the talented Spanish luthier and guitarist Antonio Torres Jurado (1817 - 1892). New influences that happened during the time of Renaissance when Europe finally ended their period of isolation and started interacting with Asia and Africa was Vihuela, Guitar of Spanish origin that served as a basis of a Renaissance and Baroque movement where not only guitars by also many other stringed instruments were viewed as a “rhythm” helpers (except Violin that managed to fight its way to the position of one of the two most popular instruments of modern Europe). This guitar became the most basic and most popular type of guitar that was used on the European continent for more than 1000 years after the fall of Rome. Roots of modern European guitar history started during the reign of Ancient Rome when they incorporated Greek stringed instrument Chitara and carried her across all the territories they managed to conquer. Among many instruments, simple stringed guitars and harps started their journey from the Middle East and Persia to the all four corners of the world, enabling our ancestors to put their touch on the history of guitar and modern music. With roots that go all the way to the birth of modern civilization in ancient Mesopotamia some four to five thousand years ago, the influence of musical instruments gave us the ability to create countless traditions. History of the guitar is in one sense, a history of entire modern humanity.
Today we can conclude that almost every society throughout history has been found to have used a variation of this instrument. Guitar history is long and exciting, not only because many forms of guitar that were used across millennia but also important modern inventors that shaped the way we interact with guitars today. The guitar is traditionally constructed from wood and strung with nylon or steel strings. The guitar is considered to be a member of the family of musical instruments called chordophones, but it is distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning.
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