Origin. The modern guitar has it's roots in Spain..although I haven't heard the term in years...."spanish guitar" used to be used to refer to the regular steel string acoustic guitar. Not very succinct, since classical and flamenco nylon string guitars are also widely identified with Spain. Maybe that's why the term "acoustic guitar" replaced it. Come to think of it, "acoustic guitar" isn't very desciptive either, since all non electric guitars are acousticly amplifed. "Steel string" is probably a better term.
The old guitar manuals (my first was a Nick Manoloff) all had titles like "How To Play The Spanish Guitar". It has fallen out of use, at least on this side of the pond. Where did you hear it? "Spanish tuning" is another name for the modern, standard guitar tuning. RR colin wrote: > what nakes a Spanish guitar Spanish? Is it the shape? The strings? The > way it is tuned or the way it is played? > I love the sound of it.
