Inventing The American Guitar : The Pre-Civil War Innovations Of C. F. Martin & His Contemporaries.

Edited by Robert Shaw and Peter Szego. In the two decades before the Civil War, a handful of craftsmen turned the European guitar into the American flat-top still used today. This history includes essays by David Gansz, Richard Johnston, David Laplante, Arian Sheets, and James Westbrook. Richly illustrated with color photos and black & white illustrations. With a foreword by Jayson Kerr Dobney, preface by Szego, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.

xvii, 289 p.; 29 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
Edition Number: HL 00333271
ISBN: 1458405761
ISBN13: 9781458405760
Distributor Number: HL00333271
UPC: 884088578350