Electric Guitars and Basses: A Photographic History
YA?Over 500 excellent-quality, full-color photographs of electric guitars and basses make this companion piece to Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instruments (1993) an absolute stunner. Chronologically arranged, the beautifully focused portraits are accompanied by a brief description of each instrument, its unique features, and its history. The first section, "Electric Roots: 1932 to World War II," includes the Hawaiians and Spanish-necks, and is followed by "Branches of the Electric Family, 1947 to the 1990s," featuring full-depth hollowbodies, solidbodies, and thinbodies. Photographers, artists, and music fans will find this book hard to put down.?Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MDCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.