The legendary guitar who recorded with Alfredo Zitarrosa, Roberto Grela and many others was a reference for all the tango guitar lovers around the world
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Posts by Alejo de los Reyes
Guitars with stories: Segovia’s Manuel Ramírez
How Segovia got his first guitar and how it influenced guitar building on the XXth century
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Learning on an academy and/or by tradition
Nowadays, learning by tradition is becoming less and less common. The profusion of academies since the 19th century has generated an academic culture that – hand in hand with the ideals of positivism that coined them – recognizes its teaching paradigm, inherited from the method of the hard sciences, as the only one that provides valid learning. It is not that academies did not exist before the 19th century -they certainly did. But it is around that time that the amount of academies around Europe multiplied, and they defined the modern system of teaching and evaluation, as well as began
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