Soft bound with 194 pages. The text explains how to use this graft to produce hundreds of scales for guitar, banjo, mandolin, uke and other fretted instruments. The setup, maintenance and restoration of the five string banjo. Every procedure is very clearly explained and illustrated. An informative yet entertaining collection of interviews with notable collectors and repairmen.
Primary focus is on the art of collecting guitar and banjos.
Soft binding, chock full of interesting anecdotes and opinions. A unique reference book listing makers and manufacturers of musical instruments in the United States, the number of instruments that the maker has crafted, and whether the instruments are available on demand or made to order. This volume surveys the enormous changes and developments of music and instruments between the Napoleonic War and the Electronic Age. This is a reprint of a book first published in 1826. This hard bound book with 250 pages gives a history of the flute from ancient to English and German flutes, modes or keys of the flute and tone and expression.