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Classical Guitarist James Edwards Has Been A Performer Teacher And Recording Artist For Over 25 Years. James Plays Contemporary Guitars As Well As Historical Instruments Of The Renaissance And Baroque Periods Such As The Five-Course Guitar And Ten Course Lute. The Five Course Guitar Has 9 Strings As 4 Of The "courses" Are Pairs Of The Same String With The Highest String Being The Only String That Is Not A Doubled Pair. The Repertoire For The 5 Course Baroque Guitar Is Quite Different From The Contemporary Guitar Repertoire And Has A Closer Parentage To 6 Course Lute And Vihuela Music. James Edwards' Has Released Ten CDs In His Career As Well As Several Guitar Music Books Published By Mel Bay Publishing. From Gaspar Sanz' "MUSICAL INSTRUCTION ON THE SPANISH GUITAR" Published In 1674 The Italians French And People Of Other Nations Classify The Guitar As Spanish. The Reason Is That In Ancient Times It Used To Have No More Than Four Strings And Then In Madrid Maestro Espinel A Spaniard Added A Fifth To It And Thereby Its Perfection Was Attained. The French Italians And People Of Other Nations In Imitation Of Us Also Added The Fifth Course To Their Guitar And Therefore They Call It The "Spanish Guitar". Others Have Discussed The Perfection Of This Instrument Some Saying That The Guitar Is A Perfect Instrument And Others That It Is Not. I Take The Middle Way And Declare That It Is Neither Perfect Nor Imperfect But What You Make It Since The Fault Or Imperfection Is In Him Who Plays It And Not In The Instrument Itself For On One Single String Without Frets I Have Seen Many Feats Performed For Which Others Would Require The Registers Of An Organ. Therefore Each Player Must Make The Guitar Either Good Or Bad Since It Is Like A Lady But To Whom The Saying "look At Me But Do Not Touch Me" Does Not Apply And Its Rose Is Quite Different From A Real Rose Since It Will Not Wither However Much It Is Touched With The Hands And Moreover If It Is Plucked By The Hands Of A Skilled Master It Will Produce In Them An Ever-New Bouquet Which Delight The Ear With Their Sonorous Fragrances. Source Magnatune.Com read less