00:00 And the one who fixed the size and the shape of the present guitar was Torres.
00:15 No one would have expected that a character that would revolutionize the world of guitar would emerge from there.
00:31 We find that Torres goes to Almería, conquers Sevilla, relates in Madrid and conquers Barcelona.
00:39 In the Torres and Arcas era, there is a common language between the flamenco guitar and the classical guitar.
00:48 I think that the guitar of Torres is the instrument that was most attractive to the guitarists of his time.
00:54 If you look at all of these guitars here, a Torres looks like this.
01:03 But what we have to realize is that Torres sort of put this model together.
01:07 All the proportions and the dimensions and the shapes that we now think are normal.
01:11 At his time, he was original, he was novel at that.
01:14 I think there is a before and after of Torres in the sense of guitar construction.
01:19 He was aiming for the classical guitar called Stradivarius.
01:24 In that sense, Torres, as he was in the Stradivarius violin, set a model that has been imposing and dominating the world for a century and a half.
01:33 And I think that's what he was aiming for.
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