There was a time in the late 17th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar. Both Louis ⅩⅣ and Charles Ⅱ were dab hands. And the future Queen Anne thought a guitar tutor was worth an annual stipend of £100, which was a small fortune then. The instrument has seen revivals in the early 19th century and the early 20th, when its place in the concert hall was finally secured by Andres Segovia. A further decade in the sun in the 1970s resulted from the maturity of two gifted young guitarists: Julian Bream and John Williams.
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