Guitars
Subtitle: amazing facts & trivia
By: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780785834809
Subjects: Guitar; Miscellanea; Guitarists
Description: 192 pages : 24 cm
Notes: "A Quarto book"--Title page verso.

"A compendium of fascinating and extraordinary things!"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Guitar makers. Les Paul facts ; Washburn guitars ; Antonio de Torres ; What's in a name? ; Music Man ; Orville Gibson ; A Gretsch story ; Move aside mandolins ; Oahu guitars ; Fender facts ; Just like the old days ; Hot for Hofners ; Bigsby and Travis ; Tutmarc's tale ; That's Rich ; Kramer versus Kramer ; Ibanez and Vai; title: Makes and models. Resonating success ; Gibson Les Paul Standard ; Fender Stratocaster ; Gibson Flying V ; The Shark ; Gretsch White Falcon ; The Fender Grungemaster ; Peavey EVH Wolfgang ; The electric sitar ; Fender Telecaster ; Guild Starfire ; Vox Phantom XII Stereo ; Martin D-45 ; Fender Precision ; Ibanez JEM ; The Dreadnought ; The Superstrat ; Music Man Silhouette ; Parker Fly ; Rickenbacker 360-12 ; Out of the frying pan ; Epiphone Casino ; PRS Custom 24 ; Burns Marvin ; Danelectro Shorthorn ; Duesenberg Starplayer TV ; G&L ASAT ; Hamer Standard ; Zemaitis Metal Front ; The Frankenstrat ; Burns Bison ; Taylor T5 ; National Airline Map ; Gibson harp-guitar ; Jackson Soloist ; Hofner Club Series ; Line 6 Variax 600 ; Yamaha Pacifica Series ; Kramer Baretta ; Manzer's Bear ; Le Domino ; Washburn Dime series; title: Design and details. Headless guitar ; The Martin headstock ; Tired of steel ; The seven-string guitar ; The application of science ; Changing colors ; Guitarland, Man ; Steely sounds ; Junior guitars ; Silent guitar ; V-head ; The Log ; Motorcycle parts ; Hammered guitar ; Coke-bottle head ; Decalomania ; The Pizzar ; Weight loss ; Pick A Pikasso ; The electric harp-guitar ; Eight strings for metal ; Flat-top versus arch-top ; In the mood ; Abstract challenge ; Maker's mark ; The more the merrier ; Strawberry Alarm Clock ; Tartar source ; Back to the future ; Juan Bermudo's fretting solution ; Playing the U.S.A.; title: Guitar materials. Cigar-box guitars ; Tie it down ; Paper guitar ; Classic woods ; The woodless guitar ; Treat it well ; Leather guitar ; Daddy made it ; The future isn't plastic ; The flamenco guitar ; See-thru guitar ; Afri-can ; Solid materials; title: Personalities. The godmother of rock 'n' roll ; Bonnie Guitar ; Blind Boy Fuller ; Townshend versus Hendrix ; The devil of a story ; Behind you! ; Record breaker ; Maybelle's method ; Birth of the Blues ; Blues techniques ; Blind Willie McTell ; Threat of expulsion ; Mr. Guitar ; In hiding ; Blind Blake ; Roll over Beethoven ; Judas goes electric ; Railroad learning ; Blind Willie Johnson ; Making Cream ; Waters goes electric ; Child prodigy ; Stand-in Broonzy ; To the grave ; Hendrix gets it covered; title: Set-ups of the stars. Pete Townshend ; The Edge ; Jimi Hendrix ; Eric Clapton ; Mark Knopfler ; Jeff Beck ; Robben Ford ; Kurt Cobain ; Eddie Van Halen ; Stevie Ray Vaughan ; Keith Richards ; Andy Summers; title: Strings, pickups, and paraphenalia. All strung out ; The humbucker ; Pick of the bunch ; Know your gauge ; May the force... ; Amplifier advances ; Banjo strings ; Good vibrations ; Pump up the volume ; Marshalled sounds ; Sounds different ; The whammy bar ; Synthetic Segovia ; A classical tale ; The P-90 pickup ; Acoustic guitar string gauges ; Electric guitar string gauges ; Bass guitar string gauges ; Tricone Sound ; Tremolo or vibrato? ; Take your pick ; Emergency picks ; Lipstick on my collar ; Fuzzy memory ; The horseshoe pickup ; Electronic effects ; Warmoth neck and Sperzel pegs ; Tremolo arms; title: Guitar history. The first fanzine ; The Portuguese 12-string ; Guitars of the ancient world ; Chitarra battente ; The first guitar hero ; The Stradivarius guitar ; Unstrung ; Earliest guitars ; The price of solidity ; An instrument of equality ; Royal serenade ; The gittern ; New York, New York ; The rock 'n' roll life, medieval style ; The American guitar ; First electric ; All Greek; title: Sounds and techniques. Hendrix effects ; Smashing guitars ; Plucking methods ; Get rid of that fretbuzz ; The birth of feedback ; Two-finger technique ; Off the wall ; Nail biting ; Two chords good ; Tapping ; The West Coast sound ; The sound of The Shadows ; Rock 'n' roll ; Tricks of the trade ; Tunings; title: Guitar music and composers. Flamenco ; Music soothes the savage breast ; Early works ; Guitar music on paper ; On a knife edge ; Compose yourself; title: Records and rankings. The world's smallest guitar ; 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ; Tiny twanger ; The World's Ten Most Expensive Guitars ; The Fifty Most Influential Guitar Albums ; Top 100 Guitar Players of All Genres ; Top 20 Greatest Metal Guitarists ; Top 20 Greatest R&B/Soul Guitarists ; Top 20 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists ; Top 100 Guitar Solos ; Top 20 Greatest Blues Guitarists ; Top 20 Greatest Jazz Guitarists ; Largest guitar ensemble ; 50 Heaviest Riffs of All Time ; The World's Greatest Air Guitarists ; Top 20 Greatest Avant Garde Guitarists ; Longest guitar concert ; The 100 Greatest Rock Bass Guitarists ; Top 10 Classical Guitarists ; Classic guitar albums (1920; title: 2000) ; Top 20 Albums of the Millennium ; Notable ukulele players ; Top 10 Country Guitarists ; The 100 Greatest Rock Bass Lines ; Top 10 Flamenco Guitarists ; Top 10 Folk Guitarists; title: Guitar miscellany. Martin model coding ; Mail order ; Gathering moss ; Luthiers ; Air Guitar World Championships ; In the comfort of your own home ; Chinese puzzle ; Whatever floats your boat ; Don't fret over the price ; "Little Almond" ; Vietnam veterans ; Bargain electrics ; Play in a Day ; Mustaches ; Flamboyant flamenco ; The Victorians unplugged ; Dirty dancing ; Outdated! ; Lucille ; The Jumping Flea ; Slowhand ; Surprising people who played the lap steel guitar ; Gibson designations ; Endangered species ; Doubling up.