Guitar - The World's Most Seductive Instrument - E-book - ePub

Celebrate the significance, the magic, and the mojo of the world's most seductive instrument.   An obsessive, full-color book presented in an irresistible slipcase, Guitar features 200 instruments in stunning detail. Here are icons, like Prince's Yellow Cloud, Willie Nelson's "Trigger, " Muddy Water's Thunderbird, and "Rocky, " lovingly hand-painted by its owner, George Harrison. Historic instruments-Fender's Broadcaster, Les Paul's "Log, " the Gibson Nick Lucas Special, the very first artist model.
Hand-carved archtops, pinnacles of the luthier's art, from John D'Angelico to Ken Parker. Stunning acoustics from a new wave of women builders, like Rosie Heydenrych of England, who's known to use 5, 000-year-old wood retrieved from a peat bog. And quirky one-of-a-kind guitars, like Linda Manzer's Pikasso II-four necks, 42 strings, and a thousand pounds of pressure.   Marrying pure visual pleasure with layers of information, Guitar is a glorious gift for every guitar-lover