Do you know your Stratocaster from your Telecaster? Your Gold-top from your arch-top? Your Danelectro from your D'Angelico? If you're a guitar player--or a guitar Iover--this is the book for you.
2,000 Guitars is a comprehensive visual and historical guide to that most lusted-after of instruments: the guitar. Compiled by a team of experts from the United States and the UK, it covers everything from early acoustic, classical, and resonator guitars through the hollowbody instruments of the jazz age, the celebrated solid and semisolid models of the 1950s and 1960s, right up to cutting-edge modern-day electric, acoustic, and bass guitars.
Do you know your Stratocaster from your Telecaster? Your Gold-top from your arch-top? Your Danelectro from your D'Angelico? If you're a guitar player--or a guitar Iover--this is the book for you.
2,000 Guitars is a comprehensive visual and historical guide to that most lusted-after of instruments: the guitar. Compiled by a team of experts from the United States and the UK, it covers everything from early acoustic, classical, and resonator guitars through the hollowbody instruments of the jazz age, the celebrated solid and semisolid models of the 1950s and 1960s, right up to cutting-edge modern-day electric, acoustic, and bass guitars.
Presented in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, the book features illustrations of 2,000 instruments by more than 300 guitar makers. There are detailed histories of all the major manufacturers--the Fenders, the Gibsons, the Martins, and so on-- and key facts about many other brands from around the world.
