Spanish guitar; 20th century.

Spanish guitar; 20th century.
Wood.
Presents faults and apocryphal label "Antonio Torres".
Measurements: 98 x 35 x 10 cm.
Guitar made of wood with a label that reads "Antonio Torres", perhaps in allusion to the luthier Antonio de Torres (Almería, 1817- 1892), known as the father of the guitar.
The development of the first "guitar" is lost in the history of medieval Spain and it was not until 1850 when the shape and structure of the modern guitar were developed by different Spanish builders such as Manuel de Soto y Solares and, perhaps the most important of all guitar builders, Antonio Torres Jurado, who increased the size of the guitar body, altered its proportions and invented the innovative fan pattern. The classical Spanish guitar is usually played as a solo instrument using an integral finger plucking technique in which each string is plucked individually by the player's fingers, rather than strummed.