Acoustic guitars and other fretted instruments : a photographic history / [text by] George Gruhn & Walter Carter.
| Author/creator | Gruhn, George |
| Other author | Carter, Walter. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | San Francisco : GPI Books, ©1993. |
| Description | 313 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part one: A time for every instrument, 1800s to 1920s. Early guitars: European ancestors -- Martin: the American guitar -- Lyon and Healy and others -- Five-string banjos: Minstrel to bluegrass -- Mandolins: Italian-style mandolins -- Orville Gibson and Company -- Lloyd Loar's master models -- Martin mandolins -- Other mandolin makers -- Tenor and plectrum banjos: Tango to jazz age -- Gibson tenor banjos -- Early twentieth century: Early Gibson archtops -- Hawaiian guitars and ukuleles -- Part two: The guitar steps foreword, 1930s to current times. Jazz and orchestral guitars: Gibson f-hole archtops -- Epiphone archtops -- Gretsch archtops -- Martin archtops -- Stromberg, D'Angelicao, and D'Aquisto -- Other archtop makers -- Resonator guitars: Nationals and Dobros -- Flat top guitars: Martin OMs and Dreadnoughts -- The Larson brothers -- Gibson flat tops -- Other flat tops -- Other flat top makers -- Lead Belly's 12-string. |
| Abstract | A photograhic history of American fretted instruments, tracing the evolution of the mandolin, banjo, and guitar from the 1800s through the 1990s. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309) and index. |
| LCCN | 92044435 |
| ISBN | 0879302402 : |