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Andrés Segovia, Masters of the Guitar

a classical guitar pioneer who popularized the instrument in the early 20th century, when it wasn’t accepted as a legitimate classical instrument. Ignoring the guitar’s limitations, Segovia magnified its strengths and in the process delighted large audiences for nearly eight decades. He thought of the guitar not

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