The Portuguese brought small guitar-like instruments with them.
The 6 string guitar was brought to Africa by traders and missionaries (although there are indigenous guitar-like instruments such as the ngoni).
The oldest known picture of a guitar-like instrument is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard.
The Portuguese brought a small guitar-like instrument, known as the machete.
In its most developed form, the vihuela was a guitar-like instrument with six double-strings (paired courses) made of gut.
Kenneth Bloom, who plays the bandura, will perform on that old Ukrainian guitar-like instrument.
The tres is a Cuban guitar-like instrument, consisting of three sets of double strings.
Sitar - a guitar-like musical instrument from India that hypnotizes anyone who hears its sound.
The ukelele is a small guitar-like instrument but with only four strings.
The concept of the album was to only perform it using guitar-like instruments.