Parlor guitar

Overview

The popularity of these guitars peaked from the late 19th century until the 1950s. Many blues and folk musicians have used smaller-bodied guitars, which were often more affordable, mass production models.

Parlor guitar has also come to denote a style of American guitar music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Noted composers include William Foden, Winslow Hayden, William Bateman, Justin Holland, and Wilhelm Bischoff. The music for the guitar includes a variety of dance forms (waltz, schottische, polka), instrumental arrangements of popular songs, guitar arrangements of then popular classical music, operatic arrangements and music from European guitar composers (Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi, Coste and Mertz). In the 1860, Henry Worrall composed two influential pieces for parlor guitar, "The Siege of Sebastopol" (sometimes spelled Sevastopol) and "Spanish Fandango."

File:C. F. Martin Spanish-style guitar (c.1845), Martin Style 3-17 (1859) - C.F. Martin Guitar Factory 2012-08-06 - 011.jpg|Spanish-style (c.1845) / Size No.3 (3-17) (1859) guitars by C. F. Martin File:Earliest X-braced Guitar (July 1842), Martin & Schatz Label, for Delores Nevares de Goñi - C.F. Martin Guitar Factory 2012-08-06 - 013.jpg|Very first Size No.1 guitar with earliest X-Bracing (1842) by Martin & Schatz File:Joan Baez Hamburg 1973 2811730005.jpg|c.f. Size No.0 (0-45) guitar played by Joan Baez

In the 2000s, the parlor guitar began enjoying a renaissance among players "who like their midrangery tone, historic vibe, and easy portability". Modern parlor guitars come in a wide variety of tonewoods. Takamine Guitars produces one made of cedar and koa, with a preamp powered by a 12AU7, the first acoustic guitar with a tube preamp. Fylde Guitars produces the 'Single Malt Ariel' constructed from used whisky casks.

:;Modern parlor & mini guitars File:C.F. Martin acoustic guitar.jpg|C. F. Martin Little Martin (Modified Size No.0) File:Martin Claire Limited Edition Guitar (2004), Museum of Making Music.jpg|C. F. Martin Claire (Size No.5) File:Taylor Swift Baby Taylor (center), Taylor Baby Taylor series (sides), & GS Mini (bottom) - Expomusic 2014 - edit.jpg|Taylor Baby Taylor (¾-size) & GS Mini

References

References

1. (1 January 2020). "Mottola's Cyclopedic Dictionary of Lutherie Terms". LiutaioMottola.com.
2. Newman, Garry. (2018-11-27). "The Parlor Guitar and Its Relation to 19th Century American Society".
3. (23 March 2014). "Talkin' Siege of Sebastopol Blues: How the first Crimean War helped create rock 'n' roll".
4. "Claire's Guitar". C.F. Martin & Co., Inc..