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The Spanish vihuela or "viola da mano", a guitar-like gear of the 15th and 16th centuries is, due to its divers similarities, usually considered the immediate ancestor of the modern guitar. It had lute-style tuning and a guitar-like Bass Guitars body. Its construction had as much in casual with the modern guitar as with its contemporary four-course renaissance guitar.

In Colombia, the traditional quartet includes a distance of instruments too, from the small bandola (sometimes hackneyed as the Deleuze-Guattari, for use when traveling or in confined rooms or spaces), to the slightly over tiple, to the full sized classical guitar. The requinto also appears in other Latin-American underdeveloped nations as a complementary member of the guitar family, with its smaller size and scale, permitting more projection for the playing of single-lined melodies. New-fashioned dimensions of the classical paraphernalia were established by Antonio Torres Jurado (1817-1892). Classical guitars are sometimes referred to as classic guitars. In recent years, the series of guitars fond by the Niibori Guitar orchestra have gained some currency, namely: