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Ten-string extended-range classical guitar

String instrument
Classification	string
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.322-5 (Composite chordophone sounded by the bare fingers)
Developed	1963 by Narciso Yepes in collaboration with José Ramírez III from the classical guitar
Related instruments
Ten-string guitar
Musicians
Narciso Yepes Perfecto de Castro
Builders
Ramírez Guitars Paulino Bernabe Senior

Ten-string classical guitar redirects here. For the romantic ten-string harp guitar or decacorde see Ten-string guitar#Ten-string harp guitars.

Invention

The concept of a guitar with fully chromatic, sympathetic string resonance was conceived in 1963 by Narciso Yepes, who "ordered the guitar from José Ramírez ". It is sometimes referred to as the "modern" 10-string guitar (or the "Yepes guitar") to differentiate it from ten-stringed harp guitars of the 19th century. That is because the latter, as Yepes explains, are "not exactly the same, because the tuning that I use is also for the resonance" (Schneider 1983).

In Ser Instrumento, Yepes states that the reasons that led him to carry out the "design" (diseño), of his instrument were acoustic/physical ("físicas") and musical ("musicales"). After some "initial protest" that the 10-string guitar envisioned by Yepes was "impossible" to construct, Ramírez completed the first of these instruments in March 1964.

See also

• Ten-string guitar for all guitars with ten strings.
• Extended-range classical guitar for all classical guitars with more than six strings.

References and notes

1. The first compositions for this instrument date from 1963: Ohana, Maurice. 1963. Si le jour paraît..., nos. 1-7. Gérard Billaudot: Paris.
2. Yepes, quoted in: Snitzler, Larry. 1978. "The 10-String Guitar: Overcoming the Limitations of Six Strings". Guitar Player 12(3): p. 26.
3. There is no record of Yepes himself using the adjective "modern" in relation to his guitar or its standard tuning. However, it is used by the LaBella Company to differentiate string sets intended for Yepes' standard tuning and another string set that the company produces, called "Romantic", which is based on the tuning of certain 10-stringed harp guitars of the Romantic period. (See LaBella's catalogue, p. 10, as well as . The Romantic 10-stringed harp guitar's tuning, from which the LaBella Company has derived its "Romantic" tuning string sets, is indicated (among other sources) here (p.3), in a period document (Rischel 30 mu 6611.1784 U48) housed at The Royal Library of Denmark.)
4. Sensier, Peter. 1975. "Narciso Yepes and the ten-string guitar". Guitar iii(9): p. 27. ISSN: 03017214.
5. Schneider, John. 1983. "Conversation with Narciso Yepes". Soundboard, Spring: p. 67.
6. Yepes, N. 1989. "Ser Instrumento" {To Be an Instrument}. Speech of Ingression into the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, delivered on 30 April.
7. Yepes, N. 1989. "Ser Instrumento" {To Be an Instrument}. Speech of Ingression into the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, delivered on 30 April: p. 15.
8. Yepes, N. 1989. "Ser Instrumento" {To Be an Instrument}. Speech of Ingression into the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, delivered on 30 April: p. 15.
9. Sensier, Peter. 1975. "Narciso Yepes and the ten-string guitar". Guitar iii(9): p. 27. ISSN: 03017214.
10. Yepes, quoted in: Snitzler, Larry. 1978. "The 10-String Guitar: Overcoming the Limitations of Six Strings". Guitar Player 12(3): p. 26.
11. Kozinn, Allan. 1981. "Narciso Yepes and His 10-String Guitar". The New York Times, Nov. 22: p. D22.

Further reading

• Ramírez, José. 1994. "The Ten-String Guitar". In Things About the Guitar. Madrid: Soneto Ediciones Musicales: pp. 137-140. ISBN 8487969402

• Classical guitar
• Reentrant tunings