guitar playing. Because the new strings are much stronger. require less frequent tuning and produce better sound, they are more practical and more desirable. At present, the internationalization of the guitar is complete. The instrument is taugh throughout the world. After World War II, the guitar became incredibly popular in Japan and the country has produced a great number of guitarists, teachers and guitar makers. Almost everywhere magazines dealing with the guitar are published and available. International journals on guitar now exist and prints articles on guitar activities throughout the world: The Classical Guitar Magazine, published in England, and The Guitar Review, published in New York, have a worldwide circulation and are also published on Internet. Guitar Societies have grown everywhere. The burgeoning of societies, associations and organizations devoted to some facet or other of guitar activities bears further witness to the universal interest in the instrument. These organizations present young guitarists in recitals, encourage study, dedicate themselves to a great variety of aims having to do with the propagation of matters pertinent to the guitar. Number of guitar recitals have multiplied as competitions held on both national and international levels. REFERENCES Grunfeld, Frederic V.: “The Art and Times of the Guitar”, Collier MacMillan Publishers, London 1969. Sparks, Paul: “Guitar performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”, Performance Practice Review Vol.10 No.1, 1997,: 71-79. Tyler James: “The guitar and its performance from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries”, Performance Practice Review Vol.10 No.1, 1997,: 61-70. Bacon, Tony and Day, Paul: “The Ultimate Guitar Book”, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1991. “What is a Harp Guitar: http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/hgorg.htm “Organology: HarpGuitar “Relatives”http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/orgfretted_hgs.htm “The Guitar Foundation of America : http://www.guitarfoundation.org/