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Common Musical Instruments Used In Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In the late 16th and 17th centuries the horn, from this time usually made of brass, was lengthened and coiled--first in a small, spiral coil, later in a wider, open loop. |
 | | In Renaissance Spain, where by the late 15th century the flat-backed, six-coursed vihuela had displaced the lute as the dominant plucked instrument, a smaller version of the vihuela with four courses (pairs of strings tuned in unison) came to be referred to specifically as the guitar. |
 | | Late in the 16th century in Spain a fifth course was added, and the five-course guitar became widely popular in the rest of Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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