ILL DIRECTORY OF GUITARS - Softcover

Alexander Charles

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840652888 ISBN 13: 9781840652888

Publisher: Salamander Books Ltd, 2001

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This superb book charts the complete history of the acoustic guitar from the sixteenth century, and the electric guitar over the past seventy years. It is a book both for players of all levels, amateur and professional, and also for music enthusiasts, whatever their interest: classical, jazz, flamenco, blues, country, rock and pop - music of the past and music of the present. Hundreds of guitars are described in painstakingly researched detail, with each presented in full colour photographs which reveal the overall shape as well as the intriguing detail

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Nick Freeth is a producer and broadcaster with twenty years' experience in the music industry. He is a former producer at the BBC's World Service and also the UK's first commercial jazz station, Jazz FM. He and fellow author also run Gleneagle Productions, an independent company producing a variety of music-based shows for broadcasters. Charles Alexander has been a jazz musician for over 30 years, and is Jazz Guitar Tutor at Richmond Adult and Community College. A professional broadcaster, he has written and presented two major series on the guitar for BBC radio stations.

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