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Originally Posted by mmasters
As I understand it the X came for strength to handle steel strings. The ladder brace came from classical guitar design and was pretty much used on all guitars up until the 1930s.
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The X bracing system by Martin and the classical fan bracing system by Torres were both in use by the 1850's. Martin's system was developed for gut strings.
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