• The six string classical guitar first appeared in Spain but was itself the product of a extensive and complex history of diverse influences

• It is therefore very distantly related with contemporary instruments such as the Iranian tanbur and setar and the Indian sitar
• The oldest accepted iconographic representation of an thingamabob displaying all the essential kisser of a guitar being played is a 3300 session decrepit immutable carving of a Hittite bard.

These are the gracile ancestors of the modern classical guitar. They are substantially smaller and more delicate than the classical guitar, and generate a much quieter sound. The strings are paired in courses as in a modern 12 http://www.jhguitars.com/ string guitar, but they only have four or five courses of strings rather than six.