Dr. Jeff Noonan teaches musicology, history of music, and guitar at Southeast Missouri State University. In “The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age,” Noonan states that the guitar originally came to the Western Hemisphere as a classical instrument. The guitar gradually involved to a folk instrument after it began associating with other "lesser" instruments such as the mandolin and banjo.

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