CelticGuitarMusic.com is guitar and harmonica books by Glenn Weiser
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Celtic Guitar Page by Glenn Weiser
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Celtic guitar probably began in America when Irish immigrants of the late 1840’s picked it up the instrument, learned some chords, and strummed along with the old songs of home. In Ireland, it was not used until a century later, according to Dublin fiddler James Kelly, and then only for accompaniment.
But research done by scholar Anne Macaulay and published in the the journal The Lindisfarne Letter suggests that the cruit, a lute-like instrument which Roman historians observed Celtic bards playing, may have had its four strings tuned like the top four string of the modern guitar. Celtic guitar could in fact go back a long way.
Although the Spanish region of Galicia is historically Celtic, there is no longstanding tradition of Celtic guitar there (I understand the music is played primarily on pipes and the harp). But classical guitarist Andres Segovia did write a lovely arrangement the Scottish air "Loch Lomond" in the 1940's, and Narcisso Yepes later would record "Brian Boru's March" under the tile of "Irish March" for Duetchgrammophone.
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