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Guitar Players at Alegre Showroom, Cebu - Guitars have been made in Cebu since the Spanish period mainly as a areplacement for organs for church music until organs were later imported and locally produced. Yet guitars developed as a local industry only in the present century, receiving support from the government's promotion of local cottage industries in the postwar period. In Mactan the craft of guitar making passes from generation to generation and the industry involves certain families, the most prominent is the Alegre family whose name has become a well-known names of Mactan or Cebu guitars.

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Guitar Players at Alegre Showroom, Cebu - Guitars have been made in Cebu since the Spanish period mainly as a areplacement for organs for church music until organs were later imported and locally produced. Yet guitars developed as a local industry only in the present century, receiving support from the government's promotion of local cottage industries in the postwar period. In Mactan the craft of guitar making passes from generation to generation and the industry involves certain families, the most prominent is the Alegre family whose name has become a well-known names of Mactan or Cebu guitars.