Foreword by C.F. Martin IV. This comprehensive guide explains how to buy and maintain the guitar that matches your needs. From its beginning in European classical music, through American innovations like blues, jazz, country, and all the way to rock, pop
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What's under the soundboard, for those who want to know,
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This review is from: Acoustic Guitar (Guitar): The Composition, Construction, and Evolution of One of World's Most Beloved Instruments (Guitar Reference) (Paperback)
There isn't much that the authors don't cover about what goes into a guitar, except for the actual methods of construction (for which you have to go to the Kinkead or Cumpiano books). In this book, you'll learn more than you'll ever need to know about woods, strings, and microphones, and the basics of how to optimize the adjustable bits for your style of playing. The authors know their stuff cold, and it shows.
To get the sort of knowldege this book offers, you have two choices. You could hang around guitar shops for years and years talking with salesmen, customers, repair people, and performers, and learning from them what they consider important in a guitar. Or, if you have a real job, you could read this book instead.
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Good reference, not for the do-it-yourselfer,
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This book is a comprehensive look at the anatomy of a guitar. It does not give enough details to use as a guide to building your own guitar. The color pictures are limited to 12 pages inside center of the book. The rest of the pictures are black and white. There is plenty of discussion of the dreadnaught style, but after reading everything I still didn't have a good idea how it differed from the standard guitar. This book's strong point is the history discussion. If you are looking to build a guitar I recommend "Classical Guitar Making: A Modern Approach to Traditional Design" by John S. Bogdanovich.
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Easy to read..,
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For me, this has been one of the best books i've read in a long time.. It is hard for me to put down.. I have been interested in music as long as I can remember and have played guitar and been interested in the dynamics of sound structure as long.. I know alot of laymen things about the guitar but this book has broken down this incredible instrument and went through each part, step by step in easy to read and understand writing. I am now getting into the art of being a Luthier and this book is full of helpful ideas and terminology.
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enclosed tuning machines, soundboard transducers, floating pickguards, flattop guitars, classical guitar builders, individual luthiers, archtop guitars, endpin jack, classical builders, headstock overlay, tuner post, solid headstocks, independent luthiers, archtop builders, saddle slot, catalyzed finishes, ladder bracing, parlor guitars, adjustable truss rod, slotted headstock, many luthiers, older guitars, inexpensive guitars, banjo tuners, nut action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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It is difficult to imagine today's musical landscape without the acoustic guitar. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enclosed tuning machines, soundboard transducers, floating pickguards, flattop guitars, classical guitar builders, individual luthiers, archtop guitars, endpin jack, classical builders, headstock overlay, tuner post, solid headstocks, independent luthiers, archtop builders, saddle slot, catalyzed finishes, ladder bracing, parlor guitars, adjustable truss rod, slotted headstock, many luthiers, older guitars, inexpensive guitars, banjo tuners, nut action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Cruz, Mario Maccaferri, Rick Turner, Steve Klein, Rare Earth, Antonio de Torres, Nick Lucas, North American, Greg Smallman, Jimmy D'Aquisto, Alvarez Yairi, Bob Benedetto, Dual Source, Froggy Bottom, Leo Kottke, Linda Manzer, Lloyd Loar, Orville Gibson, Seymour Duncan, Buzz Feiten, Django Reinhardt, Jeff Traugott, John Monteleone, Maurice Dupont, Michael Hedges New!
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- The Development of the Modern Guitar (Guitar Studies Series ; V. 2) by John Huber in Back Matter
- South America (Bridgestone Books) by Gibson on page 194
- Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instruments: A Photographic History by George Gruhn in Back Matter
- Guitar Stories Vol. 2: The Histories of Cool Guitars (Guitar Stories) by Michael Wright in Back Matter
- The Guitar Book: A Handbook for Electric and Acoustic Guitarists by Tom Wheeler in Back Matter
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