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 | | It was refined in America into two major styles: the flat-top, perfected by 1850 by C. Martin of Nazareth, Pennsylvania; and the “arched-top” (with a top carved in the manner of a violin), invented by Orville Gibson of Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the 1890s. |
 | | Prior to the 1920s the guitar had been a refined parlor instrument that was overshadowed in American popular music by (chronologically) the lute, minstrel banjo, mandolin, and tenor banjo. |
 | | The guitar had evolved in Europe by 1800 from a lute-like instrument, with paired strings, into its present form with six single strings. |
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