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Author
Publisher
Race Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stunning visual guide to the history and development of all types of guitars, packed with detailed information and profiling everything from the legendary Martin flat-tops to Gibson's arch-tops guitars and Fender's twelve-string electrics. The Ultimate Guitar Sourcebook is divided by type into nine chapters, each telling the full story of a major type of guitar. It is sub-divided geographically so the reader gets a global picture of guitar making...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, this book explores how the electric guitar's design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. A heavily illustrated history with amps turned up to eleven, Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it has evolved through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. Digging deep into archives and featuring new interviews...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of American inventor Leo Fender. Leo loved to tinker and take things apart and put them back together again. His inventions--which included the Telecaster and the Stratocaster electric guitars--would inspire the rock-n-roll generation and go on to amplify the talents of many legendary guitarists." --
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Directory of Guitars is the most ambitious and lavishly illustrated history of guitars for the collector and musician. The book shows in clear, detailed photographs and text over 360 landmark instruments of all kinds, from acoustic to solid, including base guitars and multi-stringed variants. Each entry has a double-page spread showing the guitar from different angles and features close-ups of details special to that particular instrument....
Author
Publisher
Cassell Illustrated
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Leo Fender's guitars have arguably had the greatest influence on modern music than any other make of guitar. Over 250 guitars in every model, style and finish are lovingly photographed and detailed, from the greatest to the rarest - Strats, Teles and the infamous Marauder." --
13) The birth of loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the guitar-pioneering rivalry that shaped rock 'n' roll
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built." --
"In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock 'n' roll--and these louder...
Author
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound-from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone and John Lennon's Rickenbacker to the drum set owned by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Lady Gaga's keytar, and beyond. Seven engrossing essays by veteran music journalists and scholars discuss the technical developments that fostered rock's seductive riffs and driving rhythms, the thrilling innovations musicians have devised to...
