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Article: Poets and the Spanish guitar: a love story

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Poets and the Spanish guitar: a love story

And yet, it was a Spanish poet, Vicente Espinel, who gave this instrument a fifth string at the end of the 16th century and made it famous with his compositions. It was at the beginning of the 18th century when the sixth string was added to complete the classical guitar that everyone knows and whose use has spread throughout the world, becoming a key instrument, both on the big stages and in the purest expressions of popular art.

&quot The crying of the guitar begins/ The glasses of dawn are broken&nbsp &quot . This is how the poem &nbsp &quot The Guitar&nbsp &quot by Federico García Lorca begins. Andalusia, the gypsy world and flamenco, of which the guitar is an inseparable part, are the inspiration for his works Poema del Cante Jondo and Romancero Gitano. But he has not been the only poet to find inspiration in guitar music: Gerardo Diego wrote &quot the guitar is a well with wind instead of water&nbsp &quot , while Antonio Machado sang to the guitar of the inn that & quot today you sound a jota and tomorrow ana petenera&nbsp &quot .

The greats of Latin American poetry have also fallen for the charms of the Spanish guitar . "A woman in heat who speaks in her song and dies in her silence," writes Mario Benedetti . "And so the whole night was transformed into a starry guitar box," adds Pablo Neruda . And Nicolás Guillén adds : "Voice of deep, desperate wood."

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