Before I show you around I want to show you this guitar.

It's a copy from a Barrios guitar.

Oh, wow.

You were talking to Federico Shepherd, right?

Fred?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So he made this guitar.

No kidding.

- Yeah.

And he made a copy of the first good guitar Barrios had.

So this is a copy of Ramirez from 1911.

He makes sure all the details are close to the original guitar - the mother of pearl and the sound of it.

Beautiful.

So this guitar has a funny story.

When Barrios was traveling in a car, they had an accident, and the car went down on a river.

So the guitar sunk inside the car and Barrios dove into to the river and rescued the guitar.

But it won't sound good anymore.

- Of course.

So Shepherd made this copy to restore the sound of the guitar.

Okay.

- So now we can hear it.

All right, let's hear it.

So, Scott, I wanted to bring you here because Barrios played on this stage in 1929.

Incredible.

Now we have our orchestra rehearsing there.

So we'll be here on the entrance hall that is just beautiful as the main hall.

So he started as a folk musician learning folk tunes from his father.

And then one guy called Gustavo Sosa Escalada saw the young boy and became his tutor, Gustavo Sosa Escalada was very well connected with the Spanish guitar repertoire.

And he start introducing these to Barrios.

- Okay, The first one, it's Aguado.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ So Aguado taught Jose Ascensio that taught Julian Arcas.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Then Julian Arcas taught García Tolsa.

Okay.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ And then García Tolsa taught Gustavo Sosa Escalada, who taught Barrios.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ You can really hear that Barrios is kind of part of the evolution of all of those composers.

I think so.

It's like a football game, one player sending them the ball to the next one.

So this Spanish music, this was like the foundation for Barrios.

- Yeah.

But he grew up to to connecting himself to many othe kinds of music styles and so on.

So if he had not traveled to anywhere else, he probably would have stayed a Spanish composer.

Probably.

And in the Paraguayan folk music.

Right.

Right.

It's amazing.