The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

by Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson

Book Overview

Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood's unique effect on the instrument's sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren follow that fascination around the globe as they trace guitars all the way back to the tree. The authors take us to guitar factories, port cities, log booms, remote sawmills, Indigenous lands,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022676396X
• ISBN13: 9780226763965
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"