I've heard the guitar part in Mahler's Seventh Symphony done with a
steel-string instrument.

On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:54 AM, <chriswi...@yahoo.com>
<chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Already with Webern we may ask ourselves what exactly the
> appropriate instrument really is.  The Stauffer-style type of
> guitar construction remained current in Austria well into the
> 1920's.  Certainly the heavily-built nylon string instrument is
> out!  I would love to research the status of the guitar in early
> 20th-century Vienna.  There's a new idea: Second Viennese
> Performance Practice!


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