Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia

Book Description
From the award winning team that produced the best selling Ultimate Guitar Book comes the most comprehensive book about the electric guitar. Its A-to-Z format covers more than 120 makers from around the world and details their successes and failures through 1,200 unique color, studio quality photographs. The book focuses on the iconic electric guitar with an introduction that places the electric guitar in a historical context, running from early acoustic instruments in the 16th century to amplification experiments in the 1930's. The main body of the book is the A-to-Z of brands, covering the key 65-year period from 1935 to 2000.


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Bacon may be the most prolific author of guitar books; his works include The Ultimate Guitar Book, The Bass Book, The Classical Guitar, The Gibson Les Paul Book, The Gretsch Book, and many others. Here, he offers perhaps the most comprehensive tome about the electric guitar ever. While investigating the ax's iconic status, he covers 129 makers worldwide--from Alembic to Zemaitis--and details their successes and failures in 1200 color photographs. Spanning 1935 to 2000, this is a large book, both in page count and dimension, and is printed and bound in a quality manner. Finally, it is priced to offer excellent value. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.


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