【淘金专四听写】029 吉他

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请从正文部分开始听写Probably no other musical instrument is as popular around the world as the guitar. Musicians use the guitar for almost every kind of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument. Music experts do not agree about where the guitar first was played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago.  Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from the ancient Iran sometime in the 12th century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.