Editing Classical guitar (section)

===Overview of the classical guitar's history===
The origins of the modern guitar are not known with certainty. Some believe it is indigenous to Europe, while others think it is an imported instrument.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/guit/hd_guit.htm|title=The Guitar {{!}} Essay {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art|last1=Powers|first1=Wendy |first2=Jayson Kerr |last2=Dobney |website=The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History|access-date=2017-04-08}}</ref> Guitar-like instruments appear in ancient carvings and statues recovered from Egyptian, Sumerian, and Babylonian civilizations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guitarsumo.com/the-guitars-history/|title=The Guitar's History |first=Marko|last=Jovanovic|website=Guitar Sumo|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> This means that contemporary Iranian instruments such as the [[tanbur]] and [[setar]] are distantly related to the European guitar, as they all derive ultimately from the same ancient origins, but by very different historical routes and influences. [[Gittern]]s called "guitars" were already in use since the 13th century, but their construction and tuning were different from modern guitars. The time where the most changes were made to the guitar was in the 1500s to the 1800s.<ref>Stanley Sadie, ''The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments'', (New York: Macmillan Press Limited, 1984).</ref>
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 | image1   = Wartburg-Laute.JPG
 | caption1 = [[Gittern]] (1450)
 | image2   = Vihuela - Frontispiece Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro by Luis Milan.jpg
 | caption2 = [[Vihuela]]<br/>(<!-- clipped from front piece of -->vihuela book by Luis Milan, 1536<ref>
   {{cite book
   | author     = Luis Milan
   | year       = 1536
   | title      = Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro
   }}</ref>)
 | image3   = Baroque Guitar Etienne Picart (1680).jpg
 | caption3 = [[Baroque guitar]]<ref>
   {{cite web
   | author     = Alexander Batov
   | date       = 20 April 2006
   | title      = The Royal College Dias – guitar or vihuela?
   | url        = http://www.vihuelademano.com/rcmdias.htm 
   | work       = (The talk given at the Lute Society meeting in London on 16 April 2005)
   | quote      = ''A rather small sized vaulted-back guitar in the engraving by Etienne Picart (c. 1680) after the painting by Leonello Spada Concert (c.1615), Musée du Louvre, Paris''
   }}</ref> with rounded-back<br/> (engraving by Etienne Picart, 1680)
}}