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by Tony Bacon

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.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 15, 1991

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

A crash course in guitar history more specifically electric guitars.
It is not a technical book, so there are no details or plans in crafting, repair and construction.
Good full color photos that show the beauty of all the various builds.
It does inspire ideas for potential construction if you are a budding luthier.

[Hatsuka Shimasako · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely book with lots of beautiful photos. A short history of guitars, showing wonderful pictures about guitars from the 16th century until today. Electric, acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars, telling more about popular ones like Fender and Gibson.

[mookie kong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cool visual book of guitars. The text was good and informational, but it's the pictures that make the book so awesome.

[Bence Tóth · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book that takes you to a world full of beauty. Perfectly illustrated, exciting book - one of the best of it's kind.

[Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this text because I have gotten into the guitar and it talks about all of the different guitars and how they are different. I especialy like the pages about gibson and the es 335. I think the way they explain all about the guitars history is cool. You can look up basicly any guitar and you can find all about it. I like how they have been so thorough.

Reading this text taught me about all the different types of guitars there are and how the electric guitar was made. It is fasinating how the electric guitar works. It doesn't actually use the sound of the guitar at all. It uses the vibrations of the strings and it amplifies the sound to make a note or a chord. The writer was very good at getting all the technical information across without making it boring.

[Caitlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice introduction for a beginning guitar player, although my edition is from 1990 and an updated version might be more helpful!