The "Acoustic Guitar Festival" is nothing more, but also nothing less, than a momentary inventory of the guitar scene in Germany Any attempt to give a complete overview of the guitar as an instrument would be doomed to failure from the outset by the sheer infinite variety of guitar styles and forms of playing If one takes up the word of Beethoven, "The guitar is an orchestra in miniature", one soon recognizes that the timbres, the polyphonic structures of the guitar are just as manifold as the individual instruments of an orchestra. Since the last documentation with the most profiled guitar performers in Germany, several years have passed - it is therefore only legitimate, here, in 1979, now to unite performers on a sampler, who, through the performances, have provided invaluable services to the guitar, whose fascination unites them all I have deliberately chosen the term 'festival' for this production for several reasons. At a festival, established musicians, newcomers, soloists, groups, virtuosos and those on the way come together to enjoy a few days of the joy of music, of the instrument, the joy of making music and listening together. Old familiar things alternate with new, unprecedented ones, new currents emerge, are processed and one lets oneself be influenced consciously or unconsciously by colleagues or be carried away to spontaneous improvisation or variation. So almost all titles are new for 'Acoustic Guitar Festival'. Well-known names provide the framework, but - and this I consider far more important - the largest space was given to performers who already prove today that they will be excellent representatives of the guitar tomorrow Each in his own style and in front of his audience. Many of these newcomers, whose music may well establish a new trend, can be heard here for the first time, and I am sure that this document of contemporary guitar playing in Germany shows its eminently important excerpt, an excerpt that reveals how unique the guitar, this instrument with which we all live, is in its diversity of artistic expression." (Original excerpt from the "record text" for the first vinyl edition from 1975 by Manolo Lohnes, born on Decembe