Electric guitars and basses
Subtitle: a photographic history
By: George Gruhn and Walter Carter
Contributors: Carter, Walter
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780879309749
Subjects: Electric guitar; Bass guitar; Pictorial works; History
Description: Traces the technical and aesthetic development of the electric guitar, providing a history of the instrument as well as providing stories of the major manufacturers.
Notes: Previous ed.: San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Electric roots: 1928 to World War II. Hawaiians: Rickenbacker ; National ; Gibson ; Fender ; Other makers. Spanish-necks: Hollowbodies ; Vivi-tone ; Solidbodies; title: Branches of the electric family: 1947 to today. Full-depth hollowbodies: Gibson ; Epiphone ; Gretsch ; Other makers. Solidbodies: Fender ; Fender basses ; Fender colors ; Gibson ; Gretsch ; Rickenbacker ; Other makers. Thin bodies: Gibson ; Epiphone ; Rickenbacker ; Other makers.