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Around this time, Barrios
personality began to split

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as he faced
an internal struggle.

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Fred had the photos to walk us
through it by about 1923.

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Barrios really had
developed as an artist.

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He also ha
the extra frets on the guitar.

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But this is also very important,
like these last frets,

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because we don't have it
on every guitars.

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And sometimes

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when you have to play
some Barrios pieces

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you cannot play
all the notes

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because he composed
especially for that.

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Exactly.

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The world has been tryin
to catch up to Agustín Barrios

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since about 1920,
and that's the reality.

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This was a photograph
taken in the in the home

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of one of Barrios
principal students.

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And it really showed him
at the ultimate expression

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of his concert career
as Agustín Barrios,

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Very professional.

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His presentation was as European
as he could make it.

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Then, because of a lot of
internal pressures

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in his family and

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he was getting

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close to the age of 40,
he had a midlife crisis.

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And when he emerged from this

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midlife crisis;

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Oh, wow.

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That's who he became.

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Barrios underwen
a complete spiritual, physical

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and cosmetic transformation
and underwent the earliest

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cosmetic plastic surger
ever performed in South America.

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Why did he do this?

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I mean, was this
sort of a publicity thing

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or it was somethin
sort of conflict within himself

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that he was he was resolvin
or what what led him to do this?

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You mean like underg
three surgeries that had never

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been done with no antibiotics
and no guarantee of success?

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There's something in hi
that was exploding and it wasn't

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he wasn't being accepted

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in the European model
and he had to break out.

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He just wrapped himself around
his Guaraní heritage.

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His transition included
changing his name to Nitsuga.

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Nitsuga Mangoré.

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It's Agustín
spelled backwards.

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And Mangoré was the name
of one of the last indigenous

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chiefs
of the tribes of Paraguay.

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If we look at a typical Guaraní,
this is who

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you would have encountered
on the Rio Paraguay.

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This was taken from the earliest
ever motion picture film

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from Paraguay from 1924.

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And this was Barrios

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after his transition.