A Brief History
The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years.
The word guitar was adopted into English from Spanish word guitarra in the 1600s. In the Middle Ages the word gitter or gittern was used in England. Both guitarra and gitter came from the Latin word cithara. The word cithara came from the earlier Greek word kithara. Kithara could have come from the Persian word sehtār. seh meaning "three" and tār meaning "string".
I bought mine 2 weeks ago at Lapu-lapu City, Cebu. The Original price is Php6,000 but the store owner sold it for me for Php4,000. It's a bang for the buck. He told me that if this item was sold in the market or Mall it cost Php20k plus.
Guitar Master (Lapu-lapu City, Cebu)
Picture credit to the owner © Everythingcebu.com
This business is called Guitar Master, and it consists of a guitar gallery and a small factory on Quezon National Highway in Lapu-lapu City, Cebu.
In the 1980s, some Cebu-made guitars were exported to Japan, the United States, and some countries in Europe, but Mr. Pangatunan said that sales of local guitars went down when machine-made guitars from China began to be sold at low prices. He hopes that Cebu-made guitars can regain their former glory.
Depending on the kind of wood and other materials used to make a guitar, the cost of a guitar could be anywhere from a thousand to thirty thousand pesos. Guitar makers in Cebu use woods like narra, langka (jackfruit), and kamagong (ebony). If you want a personalized guitar designed for you, you can purchase such a made-to-order instrument from Guitar Master.