Author: Zachary R. Fjestad Publisher: Blue Book Publications ISBN: 9781886768420 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
The 2nd Edition covers many major trademarks and manufacturers, including Fender, Marshall, Vox, and Ampeg, in addition to many smaller companies. Contains detailed descriptions and images on the most popular models, including both vintage and new amplifiers. A color section also helps determine conditions.
Author: Andy Bennett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100018403X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.
Author: String Letter Publishing Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781890490218 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
(String Letter Publishing). Acoustic guitarists can now better understand their instruments, preserve and protect their value, and get the sounds they really want, thanks to this new book from the experts at Acoustic Guitar magazine. This indispensable guide begins by acquainting players with their instruments and laying to rest some pervasive guitar myths, then proceeds through various aspects of basic care, setup, common repairs, and pickup installation. Whether it's cleaning and polishing a beloved guitar, protecting it from theft or changes in humidity, selecting a case, or performing diagnostics, readers will become more savvy acoustic guitar owners and repair-shop customers and can forego dubious advice from well-meaning friends and anonymous "experts" on the Web. Includes a primer and glossary of terms.
Author: Dennis Adler Publisher: ISBN: 9781886768222 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
THE BLUE BOOK OF MODERN BLACK POWDER VALUES is a softcover reference & value guide for modern black powder firearms. With 96 pages of B&W value pricing & model information & over 24 pages of color, this book is designed as the sequel to Colt Blackpowder Reproductions & Replicas, in addition to being another stand alone Blue Book title. This book contains the most up-to-date information & pricing on almost all modern black powder firearms. Mfg. Sug. List Price: $12.95 + $2 S/H. Available from Baker & Taylor, or Ingram or directly from the publisher by calling toll free 1-800-877-4867, non-domestic 952-854-5229, fax 952-853-1486, or web site: www.bluebookinc.com.
Author: Kathryn Marie Dudley Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022609541X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 375
Book Description
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk—the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon. Because this musical instrument is significant to so many—in ways that are emotional, cultural, and economic—guitar making has experienced a renaissance in North America, both as a popular hobby and, for some, a way of life. In Guitar Makers, Kathryn Marie Dudley introduces us to builders of artisanal guitars, their place in the art world, and the specialized knowledge they’ve developed. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of the lutherie community, she finds that guitar making is a social movement with political implications. Guitars are not simply made—they are born. Artisans listen to their wood, respond to its liveliness, and strive to endow each instrument with an unforgettable tone. Although professional luthiers work within a market society, Dudley observes that their overriding sentiment is passion and love of the craft. Guitar makers are not aiming for quick turnover or the low-cost reproduction of commodities but the creation of singular instruments with unique qualities, and face-to-face transactions between makers, buyers, and dealers are commonplace. In an era when technological change has pushed skilled artisanship to the margins of the global economy, and in the midst of a capitalist system that places a premium on ever faster and more efficient modes of commerce, Dudley shows us how artisanal guitar makers have carved out a unique world that operates on alternative, more humane, and ecologically sustainable terms.
Author: Zachary R. Fjestad Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing ISBN: 9781886768727 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
The illustrated history of this Modernistic guitar is back for a revised second edition. Larry Meiners wrote and published the first edition in 2001, and author Zachary R. Fjestad (Blue Book of Electric Guitars) has revised and added information to this book. This book includes the history of the Flying V from the first designs in the mid-1950s to the models Gibson is currently producing fifty years later. New additions include all the models to be introduced and discontinued since 2001, the inclusion of Epiphone Flying Vs, and a new chapter on other manufacturers who have copied this fascinating design. An eight page color section and several specification pages make identifying your Flying V a breeze!
Author: Nigel Osborne Publisher: Chartwell Books ISBN: 0785834389 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
This is the most authoritative and comprehensive reference work on the full range of guitar designs and playing styles ever produced. An info-packed and intricately detailed, illustrated glossary that helps you 'talk guitar' with authority. Taking you all the way from deciding which instrument is best for you and your music to learning the essential techniques in ten of the most popular guitar styles and maximizing the potential of your guitar, effects, and amplifier, this book is a one-stop, fast track to fluency in all aspects of the most influential icon in the history of popular music. In this book, the world's leading specialists tell you what ingredients go into a vast range of guitars and amplifiers to make them sound the way that they do; coach you on making the most of your instruments, effects, and amps; tutor you in the essential playing skills of genres from Rock to Jazz to classical-and everything in between. Contributors include Dave Hunter, Tony Bacon, Robert Benedetto, Dave Burrluck, Walter Carter, Dough Chandler, Paul Day, James Stevenson, Kari Bannerman, David Braid, Carl Filipiak, Nestor Garcia, Martin Goulding, Lee Hodgson, Max Milligan, and Rikky Rooksby.
Author: Alan Greenwood Publisher: Hal Leonard ISBN: 9781884883217 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 580
Book Description
Uses market research and analysis to provide values for vintage or collectible instruments, including information on more than eighteen hundred brands accompanied by eleven hundred photographs.
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