You truly are not very bright. The Egyptians did not introduce these stringed instruments to West Africans, the Moors and Berbers did, just like they converted them to Islam, and these stringed lutes were introduced to them(Moors/Berbers) by Egyptians, get it now? Good.  It's fact.   Those others who contend it was the other way around are called Black centric morons. You know the guys like you.:cool: Then the guy goes on to describe how they originated from Egypt and the Middle East, not the other way around. But whatever you think is true man....:rolleyes:  )Buddy, we've already went over this on another thread, Spaniards and Europeans already had guitars long before the Moors arrived, they were playing Roman citharas. Plus, the Moors were not Black anyways, north Africans are not and have never been Black, get it?:rolleyes: Spain was never occupied by negros, Moors are not negros 4 cripes sake, and they already had guitars before the Moors showed up. One thing the Moors did introduce to Spaniards though was bongo drums. Which the Spaniards love to use in their Flamenco musica. Even the liberalized often fallacious and afro centric wikipedia can't tell a lie about the origins of the modern day guitar. I was too lazy to look for another source but you can do that yourself.        The modern guitar is descended from the  Roman  cithara brought by the Romans to  Hispania  around 40 AD,  and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string  oud , brought by the  Moors  after their  conquest of the Iberian peninsula  in the 8th century. [5]   Elsewhere in Europe, the indigenous six-string Scandinavian lut ( lute ), had gained in popularity in areas of Viking incursions across the continent. Often depicted in carvings c. 800 AD, the Norse hero Gunther (also known as Gunnar), played a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake-pit, in the legend of Siegfried. [6]  By 1200 AD, the four string guitar had evolved into two types: the guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar) which had a rounded back, wide fingerboard and several soundholes,  and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) which resembled the modern guitar with one soundhole and a narrower neck. [7]