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The Story of the Guitar

Some of my readers know that I have been playing this wonderful instrument since I was a little girl. I started with classical guitar but the electric guitar was always lurking in the background (my parents weren’t that enthousiastic about that in the beginning, afraid that I would blow up the house with the amplifier I guess :D I think they made the right decision to let me wait a few years before I got an electric guitar ;) ) , so eventually (after many many years of classical lessons) I switched to the amplified kind.

So yesterday I was watching a really good documentary about one of the most popular instruments: the guitar. This BBC documentary really intrigued me, as most of BBC’s documentaries do. This particular one educates about the history of the guitar from the very first beginning, a Greek legend, till now.
Elvis Presley, John Williams, BB King, David Gilmour and so on talk about their passion for the guitar.

I really recommend you to watch this series! The next episode will be airing on 12 October, 23.20 pm (Amsterdam) at BBC1.

Website to the series: The Story of the Guitar


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  1. hangten zegt:
    08/10/2008 at 13:40

    Saw the BBC broadcast. Already sitting in front of the tele waiting for the next episode :-) Worth mentioning from the first episode too are George Gruhn’s guitarshop and Wayne Henderson master guitar builder.

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  2. Aditya/iamlame zegt:
    11/10/2008 at 05:25

    Sounds interesting. I wonder if they’ll air it here in India. I’ve always wanted to learn the guitar but never found the means to do it. Oh well.

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  3. Miranda zegt:
    17/10/2008 at 21:59

    @ hangten: so, did you like the second episode? Nice article about Wayne Henderson btw! Thanks for posting the link.

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  4. Miranda zegt:
    17/10/2008 at 22:03

    @ aditya: I looked up some torrents for you in case they won't air it in India: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=fAI&q=imagine+the+story+of+the+guitar&btnG=Zoeken&meta=
    And you're never too old to learn to play the guitar ;) I'm planning to take some lessons in piano!

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  5. eelco zegt:
    22/10/2008 at 20:51

    hmm..sounded interesting, too bad I missed it :(

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  6. Rose zegt:
    07/03/2009 at 23:01

    BBC has good music documentaries. I’ve seen this one too, very nice!
    Keep coming up with those useful tips!! :)

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