Classical guitar narciso yepes biography
Classical guitar narciso yepes biography
Narciso yepes guitarra!
Ten-string classical guitar of Yepes
Guitar designed by Narciso Yepes in 1963
"Ten-string classical guitar" redirects here. For the romantic ten-string harp guitar or decacorde, see Ten-string guitar § Ten-stringed harp guitars.
The ten string extended-range classical guitar, with fully chromatic, sympathetic stringresonance was conceived in 1963[a] by Narciso Yepes, and constructed by José Ramírez [III].[2] This instrument is sometimes referred to as the "modern" 10-string guitar[b] (or the "Yepes guitar"[3]) to differentiate it from ten-stringed harp guitars of the 19th century.
Today, ten-string instruments to Ramírez' original design remain available from the Ramírez Company,[c] and similar instruments in a variety of designs are available both from the Ramírez Company and other luthiers, notably from Paulino Bernabe Senior.
Background
In the early 1960s, luthier José Ramírez III considered adding sympathetic str