Guitars
by David Schiller
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Author: David SchillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-05
ISBN: 0761138005
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Book Review: An Excellent Handy Reference for Guitar Fans
Summary: 5 Stars
From the introduction:
"Guitars: A Celebration of Pure Mojo features approximately 500 guitars. Its aim is not to quantify, qualify, or analyze, nor does it try to speak to the scholar, social historian, or dyed-in-the-wool collector. This is a celebration of the instrument - famous instruments and forgotten instruments, milestone designs and dead-end experiments, ravishing beauties and instruments as bluntly functional as a hammer."
I've read many guitar books and the instruments that this book covers, in a little over 300 pages, is amazing - instruments I've not seen covered in other, bigger publications. There is not a great deal of text, but what there is is valuable - the essential details. Excellent quality pictures for such a small format.
Not for those who want to distinguish between, say a '54 and '55 Stratocaster, but there are plenty of other books that try to do that.
If you only want one guitar reference book buy this one! If you already have other books, buy this anyway! Its small enough to fit in your pocket on those trips to the flea market.
Summary of Guitars
Celebrate the world?s most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-color book in the irresistible format of Shoes and Handbags?which together have over 700,000 copies in print?guitarS delivers a feast of 500 guitars in vibrant color, plus players, makers, legends, myths, and more.Here are guitars that made history, that changed the course of music, that inspired new generations of players and listeners. Here are milestones in the guitar's search for its true self?Torres's classical, the amazing Gibson L-5?and experiments that ushered in a new world of sound?Rickenbacker's "Frying Pan" and Les Paul's "Log." Plus B. B. King's Lucille, Willie Nelson's Trigger, Eric Clapton's Brownie, the J-160E that John Lennon played during his 1968 "bed-in" with Yoko, Jimi Hendrix's hand-painted Flying V in full psychedelic regalia. And the far-out Gittler?no body, no neck, no peghead, yet every inch a guitar.
Also here are profiles of famous builders, including C. F. Martin, Orville Gibson, Leo Fender?the Henry Ford of guitars?and the mad genius Lloyd Loar. And individual luthiers, like Linda Manzer (her Pikasso II has 42 tunable strings), the maverick Ken Parker, and old-world artisan John D'Angelico, staring at skyscrapers from his Lower East Side shop and creating the ultimate art deco masterpiece, "The New Yorker."
Marrying visual pleasure with layers of information, Guitars captures the soul, the significance, history, magic, and the raw mojo of this most beloved of instruments.
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