50 euro goldcoin 2022 "Musikinstrumente - Konzertgitarre"

The instruments are in demand worldwide due to their high quality. This fact is recognized by the five-part series “Musical Instruments”, the conclusion of which this year marks the 50 euro “Concert Guitar” gold coin.

The guitar - including its predecessors from which it evolved - is probably one of the most popular instruments in the world, across the centuries and across many regions and cultures. The first lute instruments have been known in the Orient for 5,000 years. Egyptian drawings from the time of the Pharaohs show women playing lute-like instruments. The Arabic lute reached Europe via North Africa and Spain in the 8th century AD. The term “guitar” first appeared in the 13th century. The Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres (1817 - 1892) is considered the "father" of the modern concert guitar, whose instruments correspond in shape and construction to today's guitars. Among other things, he enlarged the body and used thinner wood than was usual at the time. He also improves the sound by developing a fan system that reinforces the guitar top and distributes the vibrations across the entire surface. In Germany, this construction method was primarily taken up and spread by Hermann Hauser I (1882 - 1952).