Part II – The renaissance up to the end of the 19 th Century.
Part I – The ancient world up to the early renaissance. If so, the previous segments of ‘Potted History of the Guitar’ series, can be accessed here (each part opens in a new browser tab): You may wish to recap on previous articles before starting here at Part VII. I may also add a bit off the original longer version back in (!!) and to balance the various parts as a more coherent whole. It also provides the opportunity to correct the content. However, once the 3,500 year history has been finished, I may try to bring it all together as a ‘box set’ feature on the web site, so it will be easier to find and come back to than monthly instalments. As previously stated, this is not an academic thesis – I just don’t have the time or resources to reference every element along the way, so it probably will never make it into book form, which is a bit of a shame but ç’est la vie. If you’ve been following the various twists and turns along the way, you’ll know that I have tried very hard to strike a balance between light entertainment for the general reader and the level of detail that would appeal to the needs of the nerdiest of guitar geeks out there. Depending on how the rest of the story is covered, this 7 th part is likely to be the penultimate episode. 
This month’s article mostly focuses on ‘what happened next’ between c.1965-1987, although it does also cover the subsequent period up to the current day, albeit in less depth than the earlier years. That article also covered some relevant later events, but the essence was about a period of intense invention and creativity, hence why it deserved a separate article dedicated to it, even though much of the content would be familiar to many. Last time, we covered the advent of production solid body electric guitars during the guitar’s ‘golden era’ from c.1950-1965. Welcome back to the latest in a long series of articles chronicling the history of the world’s favourite musical instrument.
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