hybrid guitars

Various fanciful and mixed forms started appearing from the late eighteenth century on, proof that the heyday of the guitar was over: the lyre guitar, called lyre anacréontique by its Parisian maker, the luthier Maréschal , and known as Apollo lyre in England, had the form of a conventional kithara combined with a central guitar-type, fretted neck, pegdisk, and string holder. The appeal of its elegant form was diminished by the fact that it proved unwieldy to play, and according to...