автор: Arian Sheets

Peter Szego (Princeton, NJ) is a connoisseur, collector, and player of 19th-century American banjos and guitars who headed the team that created the book. Contributing essayists included David Gansz, an expert on early American guitar-maker James Ashborn; Antiques Roadshow appraiser and Martin expert Richard Johnston; luthier and early Martin and Spanish guitar scholar David La Plante; Arian Sheets, Curator of Stringed Instruments at the National Music Museum, University of South Dakota; and University of Cambridge Fellow James Westbrook, a scholar of 19th century European guitar making.