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You clearly know very little about the repertoire of the 10-string guitar and as little about the difference between multi-string guitars and the type of guitar that Narciso Yepes invented (which is NOT simply a multi-stringed guitar or simply a 10-stringED guitar). It MUST be defined separately from multi-string guitars because of its primary characteristic and raison d'etre, which are characteristics NOT shared by other multi-string guitars. It belongs under Classical Guitar, and it deserves its own definition. Neither your ignorance nor your bias against Yepes nor your preference for your own favourite guitarists will stop the truth from coming out!
Also, please educate yourself as regards the repertoire for the 10-string guitar rather than claiming stupidly and falsely that no one of any significance but Ohana ever wrote music for 10-stringed guitars. You are not informing anyone, only showing your own bias and/or ignorance.
Viktor van Niekerk (talk) 08:26, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
You write "Neither your ignorance nor your bias against Yepes nor your preference for your own favourite guitarists will stop the truth from coming out!".
Excuse me? What truth? (Freud would have loved this.) It seems like your truth, is world domination of the ten-string guitar and your ideas.
If you always surround yourself with the ten-string guitar, then that's what you'll see in your world. Then the handful of compositions written for the instrument will seem like a real lot - because that's all you see.
If you step back for a moment and look at the world from a distance, you'll recognize the ten-string guitar and its repertoire to be marginal! That does not mean it's not interesting. (Nice Myspace page, by the way.) That does not mean that I'd never experiment with multi-string instruments. That does not mean that I'd never try a ten-string guitar. But the tone of your message, is such that I'd probably never want to try the ten-string guitar. You ruined it for me! ha-ha! 9frontier9 (talk) 11:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)