Guitar Stories, Quantity Two, By Michael Wright - ProQuest

Guitar Stories, Quantity Two : Bismarck, ND: Classic Guitar Books, 2000. 258pp., several illustrations. The reputation of the electrical guitars created by the Gibson and Fender companies has frequently overshadowed instruments by various other manufacturers, both in the hands of performing players, and by authors concerned with guitars. Somewhat that is unavoidable, as the popular instruments will be the subject of wider general interest, but the study of much less well-known or highly respected instruments is of equal value when trying to get a full summary of the annals of the twentieth-century guitar. Michael Wright's subtitle, 'The histories of amazing guitars' says much about the publication. In Nu Jazz videos is as well to define a 'cool' guitar. To many players they would be considered cheaper instruments that appeared good, but were frequently very hard to play because of poor actions. Even though some leading performers choose to play these instruments -- the studio musician Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter being a well-known example -- in general these instruments haven't gained wide acceptance or reputation. Michael Wright has set out to tell the tale of these lesser-known instruments with the same care and attention that's reserved by others for Fenders or Gibsons. The reserve covers six manufacturers -- Alamo, Guild solidbody guitars, Kay, Maccaferri, Martin electrical guitars, and Veleno. Any student of twentieth-hundred years guitar history will surely recognise two of these titles -- Guild and Martin -- as well-respected makers. Martin are probably the mostly highly thought of makers of acoustic steel string guitars, and Guild have become well known for his or her archtop guitars. In both cases, though, their electric instruments have already been very poorly received by the general public.

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