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	Antonio Torres Jurado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antonio de Torres Jurado (June 13, 1817–November 19, 1892), more commonly known to guitarists as Torres, was the father of the modern classical guitar.
		He was apprenticed to a carpenter and luthier in the town of Vera, Almería, Spain.The earliest Torres guitar dates from 1854 when he was nearing the age of forty.
		Stefano Grondona has recorded CDs using the several of the original instruments and it is amazing how beautiful they sound even after all these years in museums or private collections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonio_Torres_Jurado (216 words)

	Encyclopedia: Antonio Torres Jurado
		A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.
		Torres was born in the playita sector of...
		Torres' judgement restored the guitar's viability at a time when it was manifestly failing to compete with louder, more dramatic instruments.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antonio-Torres-Jurado (610 words)

	The Classical Guitar Book
		Antonio de Torres Jurado was the son of a tax collector, born in the village of La Cañada, near Almería, in the far south of Spain in June 1817.
		Torres' bridges were another step forward: from about 1857, he used a separate saddle, permitting minute adjustment of string height.
		Torres knew that lightness was essential in the vibrating surface of an instrument.
	www.morrish.dircon.co.uk /classical.html (1608 words)

	Historic Guitar Makers of the Almería School
		Antonio Jiménez de Soto was a luthier active in Almería around the middle of the nineteenth century.
		Antonio de Torres was born in San Sebantian de Almería, June 18, 1817.
		The guitars Torres made so superior to those of his contemporaries that their example changed the way guitars were built, first in Spain, and then in the rest of the world.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/commerce/zavaletas/greene/zalmeria.htm (1278 words)

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		Antonio de Torres Jurado was born in Cañada (Almeria) in 1817 and died in Almeria in 1892.He learned carpentry in the town of Vera and worked in this job for some years.
		Torres who completely surprised everybody, as he did not have any previous relatives in this field, and he learned guitar making at the age of 33, achieved excellent results.
		Torres also set the standard lenghth of the diapason of the guitars in 650mm, lenghtened the "Trastes" and eliminated all the decorations.
	www.laguitarra.net /ITorres.htm (902 words)

	Guitar History Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The materials that strings are created from, range from cyrogentically treated steel, nickle, nylon and even silver, depending on the manufacturer.(Note: the use of steel strings would increase volume which prove to be a critical issue for the young instrument in the 1950's).
		Jurado's first change was to lengthen the neck and fix the length of the strings.
		Jurado went so far as to create a guitar with a paper mache back to prove to his contemporaries that the majority of the sound came from the top.
	www.planetdeville.com /historyp3.html (872 words)

	Guitar Salon International: Classical Guitars & Flamenco Guitars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Antonio de Torres Jurado was the son of a tax collector, born in the village of La Canada, near Almeria, in the far south of Spain in June 1817.
		The family moved to Vera, a larger village slightly to the north, and it was there that he completed his apprenticeship and was enrolled in the local guild of carpenters.
		Torres' concert guitars, introduced in the early 1850s, have soundboards about 20 per cent larger than those of the concert guitars played by Fernando Sor and Dionisio Aguado a few years earlier.The extra area is in both upper and lower bouts, giving his plantilla the figure-of-eight form we now take for granted.
	www.guitarsalon.com /index.php?site_url=115 (1992 words)

	Musical Acoustics Group: The Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The development of the modern guitar is attributed to Antonio de Torres Jurado (1817(?)-1892), who enlarged the size of the body and further developed the fan strutting.
		Torres' success was not simply the result of his technological achievements but due in part to his symbiosis with Tárrega, the most influential player, composer and teacher at the end of the nineteenth century.
		Torres fan strutting - seven delicate radiating bars in the lower bout - is still used in the majority of guitars built today.
	www.astro.cf.ac.uk /groups/acoucomp/MAGGuitar.html (1509 words)

	Historic Guitar Makers of the Almería School
		We know that by 1887 Torres' heath was deteriorating, and his hands shook so badly that he had difficulties signing his name, and needed help to do assembly work.
		Antonio De Torres Jurado (1817-1892) is as revered among guitarists as Stradivarius is revered among violinists.
		Torres offered him a modest guitar he had in stock, but on hearing him play, offered him a guitar he had made for himself a few years before.
	www.zavaletas-guitarras.com /files/zalmeria.htm (1476 words)

	Torres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the father of the modern classical guitar, see Antonio Torres Jurado.
		Torres is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by FX Schmid in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
		The game strongly influenced Kramer and Kiesling's Mask Trilogy of games, but is not considered to be a part of the trilogy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torres (651 words)

	About the classical guitar
		Antonio de Torres Jurado, the 19th-century Spanish carpenter, is the man often associated with the classical guitar modern form.
		Torres' guitars were the first large guitar especially compared to the ones seen until his time.
		It is known today that the wood used by Stradivarius for his violins built in the 1700-1720 span of time were built using woods that grew in what scientists call a micro ice age that it Europe from the mid-1400s until the mid-1800s...making trees grow much slower than normal.
	www.mangore.com /about_the_classical_guitar.html (1816 words)

	Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarron, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.
		The father of the modern classical guitar was Antonio Torres Jurado.
		Flat top guitars: Similar to the classical guitar, however the body size is usually significantly larger than a classical guitar and it has a narrower, reinforced neck and stronger structural design, to sustain the extra tension of steel strings which produce a louder and brighter tone.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baritone_guitar (5217 words)

	Antonio Torres Jurado - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Antonio Torres Jurado - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Jose Romanillos has written a biography of this great luthier, entititled "Antonio De Torres".
		Antonio Torres Jurado, 1817 births, 1892 deaths and Luthiers.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Antonio_Torres_Jurado (231 words)

	Antonio Torres Jurado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Antonio de Torres Jurado (June 13, 1817 - November 19, 1892),more commonly known to guitarists as Torres, was the father ofthe modern classical guitar.
		The earliest Torres guitardates from 1854 when he was nearing the age of forty.
		Stefano Grondona hasrecorded CDs using the several of the original instruments and it is amazing how beautiful they sound even after all these yearsin museums or private collections.
	www.therfcc.org /antonio-torres-jurado-203250.html (194 words)

	Antonio Torres
		Photo: Antonio Torres Barranco If indeed this was the most talked-about flamenco wedding of the Andalusian spring, the work which MarÌa has been carrying out for the last two years in the...
		Antonio Torres, director general de Calidad, InvestigaciÛn y GestiÛn del Conocimiento, ha seÒalado que "los datos de este an·lisis se dieron a conocer en 2003 y posteriormente se enviaron al...
		Just as Antonio Torres demonstrated in the late 1800s by producing a fine guitar with a fine quality spruce top with paper mache back and sides to show that it was the top that was the most...
	www.isleantonio.com /antoniotorres (949 words)

	TheGuitarSite.com - Welcome to The Guitar Site!
		In Spain, the work of Antonio de Torres Jurado (1817 - 92) was crucial in turning the guitar into a serious and credible instrument.
		It was Torres who experimented with the existing construction and dimensions and created the template for the instrument that exists today.
		The first prominent player to use Torres’ design was Francisco de Tarrega (1852-1909)—the man in whose hands the guitar was first treated as a serious musical proposition to rival the other orchestral instruments.
	www.theguitarsite.com /s2/classical_origin.asp (885 words)

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		Even though, Antonio de Torres Jurado (from Granada, España) was the one who made (around 1850) the instrument that today is known as classic guitar.
		Antonio de Torres Jurado was born in July 13th, 1817, near to Almería, España.
		One of the most important modifications to the guitar is the change of gut strings for Nylon strings in 1945, and the Albert Agustine´s ones (New York) are the first made commercially.
	www.gonzalomico.com /english/gear09.html (267 words)

	Spanish Guitar History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		With Antonio Torres, there's a before and after in the history of Spanish guitar.
		Antonio de Torres Jurado was born in Cañada in 1817 and died in Almeria in 1892.
		Antonio de Torres, A Modern Guitar Maker From ACOUSTIC GUITAR, August 2003
	www.mercamusic.arrakis.es /classic/history.htm (302 words)

	DISCOVER Vol
		A great guitar is like a beautiful woman--no, really, it is. Antonio de Torres Jurado, the 19th-century Spanish carpenter who gave the acoustic guitar its modern form, is said to have been inspired by the figure of a young woman in Seville.
		Torres made the guitar much larger than it had been before, especially in the hips, and thus made it loud enough to compete at a time when it was rapidly losing market share to the piano.
		Kasha got interested in guitars 35 years ago, when he looked inside his 8-year-old son's instrument with a bicycle mirror and was horrified by what Torres had wrought--specifically, by the symmetrical fan of internal struts that are glued to the inside of the top plate.
	greenhopehigh.wcpss.net /LRush/physics_guitars.htm (1320 words)

	Classical Nylon Guitar Instruments
		Better known simply as Torres, he was without a doubt the most important figure in the history of guitar design and construction.
		Torres first learned the principles of guitar-making in the Grenada workshops of Jose Pernas.
		By the middle of the nineteenth century he was making guitars bearing his own name, and over a period of years he gradually refined his ideas, building experimental instruments of varying sizes and shapes and trying constructional methods which were quite revolutionary.
	www.instrument-musical.com /classical_nylon.htm (703 words)

	Website of Harry George Pellegrin Author, Musician, Recording Artist guitars and crime novels set in Yonkers
		Antonio De Torres Jurado (1817-1892) is often referred to as the Stradivarius of the guitar.
		Even though this is not considered an instrument built in the truest ‘Torres Style', one can readily see the more voluptuous body shape and almost modern proportions.) The guitars Torres made during the second epoch are so vastly superior to those of his contemporaries that their pattern changed the way guitars were built worldwide.
		José Ramirez II modified the bracing system of Torres to include a transverse brace further stiffening the top to produce a distinctive tone that was further enhanced and focused by José Ramirez III who moved from spruce to cedar for his top wood.
	pellegrinlowend.com /the_classical_guitar.html (4166 words)

	The Romantic Guitar Agency Our Music - Spanish Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Just as his approach to guitar playing laid the foundation for more advanced practice, so the work of the celebrated guitar maker Antonio Torres Jurado (1817-1892) led directly to the basic form of the guitar in which it is now known.
		The Torres guitar was so obviously superior to anything else in its day that its example changed the pattern of guitar building, first of all in Spain and eventually worldwide.
		Torres innovations resulted in the foundation of a true Spanish school of guitar making whose membership eventually included the most important luthiers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
	www.romanticguitar.co.uk /music/oumusic-history-spanish.htm (1295 words)

	Civilization.ca - The making of musical instruments in Canada - History - Guitar
		By the late 1700s, the Spanish luthier Pagès, of Cadiz, had designed guitars which differed increasingly from the baroque instrument: they had six single strings, metal frets instead of gut frets, and experimental fan-shaped bracing under the soundboard.
		During Torres's lifetime, the guitar began to acquire status as a solo instrument, and the great guitarist Tárrega (1852-1909) paved the way for the modern school of classical guitar.
		Spurred on by the instrument's growing popularity, Torres built larger guitars and continued to experiment with internal bracing, which gave his instruments a much more robust tone.
	www.civilization.ca /arts/opus/opus310e.html (226 words)

	Guitar - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Flamenco guitars are almost equal in construction, have a sharper sound, and are used in flamenco.
		In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarron, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.The father of the modern classical guitar was Antonio Torres Jurado.
		Flat top guitars: Similar to the Classical guitar, but with a narrower, reinforced neck and stronger structural design, to sustain the extra tension of steel strings which produce a louder and brighter tone, the acoustic guitar is a staple in folk, Old-time music, traditional and blues music.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Guitars (3732 words)

	Guitar - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Flamenco guitars are almost equal in construction, have a sharper sound, and areused in flamenco.
		In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarron, a guitar larger than a cello,which is tuned in the bass register.The father of the modern classical guitar was Antonio Torres Jurado.
		Flat top guitars:Similar to the Classical guitar, but with a narrower, reinforcedneck and stronger structural design, to sustain the extra tension of steel strings which produce a louder and brighter tone, theacoustic guitar is a staple in folk, Old-time music, traditional and blues music.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Guitar (3695 words)

	Classical Guitars - Spanish Guitar Music and Strings
		The acoustic guitar has its origins in the medieval lute, the Moorish guitar and the North African aud, but the immediate ancestor of the modern guitar was developed in Spain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Antonio de Torres Jurado made a guitar around the mid-19th century that was similar to today's modern classical guitar.
		This method of playing was developed by Antonio de Torres Jurado in Spain.
	www.guitars.link.ru.com /classical-guitars.htm (466 words)

	Gyre Music - New & Ancient Music - Fine Recordings & Music Editions
		The street in Sevilla made famous by Antonio de Torres Jurado, Calle de la Cerrajería, and its neighboring street Calle de la Carpintería, was already the center of elite guitarbuilding when Torres arrived in 1845.
		It is assumed that this fine older builder Gutiérrez shared many of his secrets with Torres, as is evidenced in the indisputable similarities between the 1854 Gutiérrez used on this recording and the 1857 Torres (FE 07) in the Yale University Musical Instruments Collection, both shown below.
		Torres has been quoted as saying, ?it is impossible for me to leave [my] secret behind for posterity...it is the result of the feel of the tips of the thumb and forefinger communicating to my intellect whether the soundboard is properly worked out...?
	www.gyremusic.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=36&osCsid=ec84193a6660c9eb4df16e065501206e (1440 words)

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