2) pdf Mohamad Al Syariq Bin Md Wahit Hasim

At the beginning of the 19th century one can see the modern guitar beginning
to take shape. Bodies were still fairly small and narrow-waisted.
6 String Guitar by George Louis
Panormo, 1832
The modern "classical" guitar took its present form when the Spanish
maker Antonio Torres increased the size of the body, altered its proportions,
and introduced the revolutionary "fan" top bracing pattern, in around 1850.
His design radically improved the volume, tone and projection of the
instrument, and very soon became the accepted construction standard. It
has remained essentially unchanged, and unchallenged, to this day.