2009 (UTC)

The name is, to be blunt, nonsensical. No actual 10-string guitarist or authority on this instrument uses this terminology, which is entirely 's own creation. Why the anachronistic "classical"? Neither the 10-stringed harp-guitar of the 19th century nor the modern 10-string guitar is an instrument from the Classical period, and an acoustic guitar is as little limited to the performance of so-called "Classical" music as an acoustic piano is. And what exactly is meant by "extended-range"? Extended from what? This is assuming that the guitar had a fixed range, which is a fallacy considering most of the notable guitarists of the 19th century (Sor, Carulli, Coste, Mertz, Legnani, Manjon, etc.) also wrote for/performed on guitars with more than 6 strings, many of which had a treble range that was extended beyond the 19th/20th fret that is the norm on today's guitars. All in all this is a nonsensical title for an article that should simply be called "ten-string guitar" that that should include only historically significant instruments (i.e. not things like the Marlow 10-string guitar). And there should be a separate article for the "Yepes 10-string guitar", which this article currently simply continues to confuse with unrelated developements that have nothing to do with the primary defining characteristic of the Yepes instrument: its singualr tuning which uniquely gives sympathetic string resonance in unison with any note fretted on the treble strings.

Viktor van Niekerk [ www.tenstringguitar.INFO]
  05:56, 15 March