Acoustic Guitars [PDF ebook] 
The Illustrated Encyclopedia

Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide of its type ever produced, covering decades of great instruments and the people who played them.  



You will find here the
highest quality photos of acoustic guitars produced by every significant maker , from Alvarez to Zemaitis, plus detailed information, and a host of action pictures of important players from pop, rock, jazz, country classical, blues, and folk.

 

An acoustic guitar need not be a simple brown box with a neck attached. 
Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia celebrates the unusual, the different and the purely bizarre in addition to the assured roots-based craft of the finest unadorned instruments, underlining the sheer diversity and variety of the acoustic stringed instruments that have been built and sold and played through three centuries.



Here are
resonator guitars made since the 1920s by Dobro, National, and others, often with highly decorated metal bodies;
revered flat-tops from Martin, Taylor, Gibson, and more;
peculiarly shaped and oddly featured creations from many of the custom builders; early 20th-century
harp guitars with extra strings and extended bodies ;
creative archtops from D’Angelico, Epiphone, Benedetto, and more; and
plastic-equipped constructions from Ovation.



The
comprehensive and informative text is in a clear A-to-Z format
organized by brand name , written and researched by a unique team of the world’s leading authorities on the subject. 
Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia shows in words and pictures just why and how the acoustic guitar continues to be the
most popular musical instrument in the world .

Über den Autor

Tony Bacon is a leading author on guitar history, based in London. He has written, edited, or contributed to many highly regarded books on the subject, and co-founded music-book publisher Backbeat UK.