The Ultimate Guitar Book is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to guitars, from early acoustics to the latest electrics. ""...the most beautiful book on guitar ever produced."" 192 pages, hard cover, illustrated with full-color photos.
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The guitar is the most popular and versatile of all musical instruments, lending its humble presence to musical forms and genres from rock, country, and bluegrass to classical, jazz, and blues. In The Ultimate Guitar Book, the guitars on display show an almost infinite range of variations and refinements on one basic theme "a box with a neck," as the editors put it in the introduction to the acoustic guitar. From 17th century Stradivari to the latest guitar-synthesizer hybrids, it's all here: instruments famous and rare, antique and novel, including guitars owned or used by notable musical figures from Les Paul to Paul McCartney. The text includes helpful notes on the instruments' construction, as well as information about legendary designers like Martin, Gibson, and Fender. Whether you are a guitarist, collector, or simply an admirer of exquisite musical craftsmanship, this lovely book is a testament to human ingenuity in search of the perfect sound.
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YA-- A multitude of full-color photos, with accompanying description of the parts, types, and spin-offs, enhance this chronological history of the guitar, beginning with an example from 1552 and continuing through current times. Covering acoustic, electrical, and bass guitars, including all the big-name manufacturers such as, Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Stratocaster, this informative and beautifully illustrated work will have wide appeal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A joy to read and look at.,
By Francois Leblanc (Laval, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ultimate Guitar Book (Paperback)
I bought this book because I liked the first part of "The Complete Guitarist" book where the history and dissection of the guitar is shown.This book is full of pictures and descriptions of a lot of guitars. The book is divided by guitar type, from acoustic, archtop, solid-body electics, semi-solid electrics and basses. The descrptions are short and give way to the pictures, but the guitars that demand, by respect, more description are given more pages. The guitars shown are from all over the world and thus aren't limited to a specific market. Its cool to see how a russian guitar is made. The only thing I would have liked is a timeline, but the book isn't formatted this way and its fine. All in all a very fun book to have. No theory, nothing to tell you "practice damn it!", just enjoy.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding!!! It's the ultimate guitar book,
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I've read and reread this book countless times. The details in construction techniques of the various classes of guitars from the Archtops to the Solid Bodies, are very well ilistrated and the text is unambiguous, without being patronizing. I would highly recomend it as an addition to auy music lovers library. -Jose' Torres Jr.-
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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The pictures make the book.,
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If you were to never read one word of the text of Mr. Bacon's fine book, it would still be worth the cost. Encased between the two covers are some of the finest photos of guitars you'll ever lay your eyes on. Not only are there pictures of your "standard" American-made guitars (Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker), but also "axes" from around the world. Bacon has also included some interesting and unusual guitars as well. This is a book that you will go back to over-and-over; it's that interesting.
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There are principally two kinds of acoustic guitar, the flat-top and the archtop. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solid electric guitar, sharp cutaway, fingerboard markers, vibrato system, rounded cutaway, fingerboard inlays, piezoelectric pickup, electric archtops, acoustic body, resonator guitars, trapeze tailpiece, archtop guitars, ebony fingerboard, solid electrics, solid body electric guitar, rosewood fingerboard, pickup selector, spruce top, sunburst finish, maple neck, making guitars, electric acoustic guitars, maple top, guitar body, guitar makers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Paul, Leo Fender, New York, Music Man, Chet Atkins, United States, Gold Top, Far East, Frying Pan, Merle Travis, White Falcon, Jazz Bass, Precision Bass, New Jersey, Ernie Ball, George Benson, The Log, World War, George Fullerton, Hermann Hauser, Manuel Ramirez, Adolph Rickenbacker, Antonio de Torres, Barney Kessel, Christian Frederick Martin New!
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There are principally two kinds of acoustic guitar, the flat-top and the archtop. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solid electric guitar, sharp cutaway, fingerboard markers, vibrato system, rounded cutaway, fingerboard inlays, piezoelectric pickup, electric archtops, acoustic body, resonator guitars, trapeze tailpiece, archtop guitars, ebony fingerboard, solid electrics, solid body electric guitar, rosewood fingerboard, pickup selector, spruce top, sunburst finish, maple neck, making guitars, electric acoustic guitars, maple top, guitar body, guitar makers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Paul, Leo Fender, New York, Music Man, Chet Atkins, United States, Gold Top, Far East, Frying Pan, Merle Travis, White Falcon, Jazz Bass, Precision Bass, New Jersey, Ernie Ball, George Benson, The Log, World War, George Fullerton, Hermann Hauser, Manuel Ramirez, Adolph Rickenbacker, Antonio de Torres, Barney Kessel, Christian Frederick Martin New!
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