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The guitar has a long history. The Ancient Egyptians (1) simple stringed instruments, and the Greeks and Romans also made music (2) plucking strings by their fingers. The first true guitar music came during the 15th (3) in Spain. At first it was an (4) for poor people and travelling musicians, but soon rich people all(5) Europe were learning to play the guitar.

The guitar travelled far and fast. When Cortes reached Mexico in the 16th century he had a guitar player (6) his soldiers. A century later, the guitar was (7) played all over South America. The Spanish Americans made some changes to the instrument and developed their (8) style of playing. In North America new (9) of music, jazz and popular music especially, led (10) new kinds of guitar. In the modern world there are 4 main (11) of guitar: the classical, the flamenco, the steel stringed and electric guitars.