Not one of them is classical, but the sixty-five superb acoustic and electric guitars from 1834 to 1998 featured in this beautiful little book are definitely classics. The team who produces Pomegranate’s long-running and highly popular Classic Guitars wall calendar brings us a pocket jewel of a book. Robert Shaw’s introduction concisely describes the guitar’s evolution and the twentieth-century explosion of creativity that has resulted in thousands of top-notch luthiers and millions of instruments worldwide. Michael Tamborrino courtesy of Vintage Guitar, Inc. supplies luminous full-color studio photographs of history’s most significant—or just plain coolest—guitars, with illuminating technical and cultural notes by Shaw. Sumptuously produced, inexpensive, and full of absorbing information, Classic Guitars is an obvious choice for those with a guitarist on their gift list. And by now, everybody in the world probably knows a guitarist.
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About the Author Curator, musician, and art historian Robert Shaw has written extensively about American music and folk art. His books include America's Traditional Crafts, Quilts: A Living Tradition, American Baskets, and Great Guitars. With Michael Tamborrino, he has produced a calendar, Classic Guitars, for Pomegranate since 1999.
About the Photographer Michael Tamborrino is a photographer, a writer, an artist, and a musician whose work has appeared in Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Player, and many other publications. Currently a member of the New York Press Photographers Association, he has also been an executive board member of the American Society of Media Photographers.
