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2,000 guitars : the ultimate collection
\"The incredible array of featured instruments is arranged alphabetically by maker/manufacturer for easy access. For convenient browsing, sections are further organized by subdivisions, including solid-bodied guitars, semi-solid-bodied guitars, acoustic guitars, and bass guitars. Clean, modern spreads showcase thousands of full-color photographs of the world's most coveted guitars\" --Amazon.
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A guide to playing the baroque guitar
James Tyler offers a practical manual to aid guitar players and lutenists
in transitioning from modern stringed instruments to the baroque guitar. He begins
with the physical aspects of the instrument, addressing tuning and stringing
arrangements and technique before considering the fundamentals of baroque guitar
tablature. In the second part of the book Tyler provides an anthology of
representative works from the repertoire. Each piece is introduced with an
explanation of the idiosyncrasies of the particular manuscript or source and
information regarding any performance practice issues related to the piece itself --
represented in both tablature and staff notation. Tyler's thorough yet practical
approach facilitates access to this complex body of work.
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Guitar for kids : method & songbook
A fun, easy course that teaches children to play guitar faster than ever before. Features include popular songs and clean, simple page layouts. Full tunes include: \"Feelin' Alright,\" \"Jambalaya (On the Bayou),\" \"Love Me Do,\" \"Paperback Writer,\" and more.
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Cool Wooden Box
“In
Cool Wooden Box , Rand Smith has cleverly woven person,
social, and musical histories into a compelling narrative. In
doing so, Smith has illustrated just how, well, cool the steel
string acoustic guitar, its makers, and its players are.”
—John Thomas, author of
Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women and
Gibson’s “Banner” Guitars of WWII , and
field editor for
The Fretboard Journal Beginning with a comparison of
the American acoustic guitar world in the early 1960s with that
of today, then describing iconic performances at storied venues
such as The Ark in Ann Arbor while meticulously researching the
instrument’s top makers, Smith assembles a passion-filled
and eye-opening history of that “cool wooden box”
from the folk era through the pandemic. The author focuses on
both the playing and making of the acoustic guitar, concluding
that the instrument has been transformed in both aspects during
the last sixty years. On the playing side, Smith examines the
influences on, and the impact of, such guitarists as David
Bromberg, Elizabeth Cotten, Paul Geremia, and Norman Blake. On
the making side, the author takes the reader into the
tradition-minded yet dynamic world of lutherie. He traces how
the oldest, most revered companies whose reputations are based
on legendary breakthroughs in lutherie, Gibson and Martin, have
adapted as the new lutherie movement of innovative small-scale
producers, exemplified by interviewees such as Michael Gurian,
Bill Collings, Richard Hoover, and Dana Bourgeois, arose.
Starting small and then growing exponentially, Taylor Guitars
is a wholly different “player” in acoustic guitar
building, and Smith compellingly tells its story. Finally,
Cool Wooden Box considers the effects of globalization
on the industry.
Clocking thousands of miles and hours of interviews with
guitar makers, suppliers, and sellers, W. Rand Smith has
created not only a detailed history of the acoustic guitar, but
also a lasting tribute to an instrument he so clearly
reveres.
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Amplified
An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, demonstrating how its design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it developed through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. It digs deep into archives and features new interviews with makers and players.
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The Guitar in America
The Guitar in Americaoffers a history of the instrument from America\\'s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America\\'s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late nineteenth-century musical and com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments into America\\'s elite musical establishments.
Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement\\'s heyday, tracing the guitar\\'s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments. Chapters consider the BMG movement\\'s impact on jazz and popular music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America\\'s musicians.
This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the BMG community within America\\'s larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country\\'s uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce.
Jeffrey J. Noonan, associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, has performed professionally on classical guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, and theorbo for over twenty-five years. His articles have appeared inSoundboardandNYlon Review.
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21st century guitar : evolutions and augmentations
\"Examines the diverse physical manifestations of the guitar which have emerged in response to the needs of the modern performer and explores the creative possibilities these new forms afford\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Grail Guitar
Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a mystery tour of the late 60's rock world to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought second hand in a London music store in 1973 is the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record \"Purple Haze\" in January 1967. Follow the clues on this fascinating journey into Hendrix history.
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