An illustrated history and directory of electric guitars
Subtitle: features over 230 instruments shown in 360 photographs
By: Terry Burrows
Contributors: Burrows, Terry
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781780194202
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Electric guitar; Pictorial works; History
Description: Each entry provides detailed information about the instrument's date, place of origin, the material it is made from, and any unusual features. There are also panels describing electric guitar heroes and their styles of play.
Notes: "Previously published as part of a larger volume, The complete illustrated book of the electric guitar"--Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: History of the electric guitar. The principles of sound; title: The first electric guitars; title: Experimenting with solidbodies; title: The great rivalry; title: The electric explosion; title: Altering the face of music; title: The rise and fall of guitar groups; title: The modern era; title: Directory of electric guitars. Electric lap steels; title: Early archtops; title: The luxury Gibsons; title: Gibson ES-175 family; title: Early Epiphone electrics; title: The solidbody pioneers; title: The Fender production line; title: Gibson Les Paul; title: The electric bass; title: Gretsch solidbody electrics; title: Gretsch hollowbodies; title: American hollowbodies; title: The new Rickenbacker; title: Danelectro; title: The Gibson Modernistic line; title: Fender : the second generation; title: Jim Burns; title: Britain in the 1960s; title: The birth of the SG; title: Gibson ES thinlines; title: Gibson Firebirds; title: Player-endorsed Gibson models; title: Bass guitars in the 1960s; title: Epiphone:  after the Gibson takeover; title: Rickenbacker in the 1960s; title: Japan in the 1960s; title: Northern Europe in the 1960s; title: Double-neck guitars; title: Guitars from the Eastern Bloc; title: Rickenbacker 12-string electrics; title: Fender in the 1960s; title: Other 1960s US solidbodies; title: Italian electrics; title: Is it a guitar or a bass?; title: Curious shapes; title: The new Gibson Les Pauls; title: The last Gibson originals; title: Yamaha; title: 1970s American solidbodies; title: Britain in the 1970s; title: The new Fender classics; title: Alternative materials; title: Curiosities; title: B.C. Rich; title: Fenders from the 1980s; title: Gibsons from the 1980s; title: Music Man and G&L; title: Ibanez; title: Beyond six strings; title: Diffusion ranges; title: Europe in the 1980s; title: Signature Stratocasters; title: The birth of the superstrat; title: The growth of the superstrat; title: Guitar synthesizers; title: The modern bass; title: Curious Strats; title: Fender in the 1990s; title: The reissue vogue; title: Washburn and Parker; title: Les Paul special models; title: Boutique brands; title: Paul Reed Smith; title: The growth of PRS; title: Do-it-yourself guitars; title: Gibson Robots.