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Title: Blue Guitar by Ken Vose, Leslie Jean-Bart, Kenneth E. Vose ISBN: 0-8118-1912-4 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Guitars from the top shelf
Comment: Blue Guitar is a sweet tribute to Jimmy D'Aquisto as a guitar maker and to Scott Chinery as a collector of fine instruments. The impeccable workmanship of the instruments in this book is a small oasis of patience and craftsmanship in a fast-food culture. It provides an insight into the type of people that create these wonderful pieces, as well as the zeal of one person whose passion was acquiring the best of examples of this art form. You don't have to be a guitar junkie to enjoy this book. It's fun to read and real easy to look at.
Rating: 5
Summary: "The Blue Guitar", by Ken Vose
Comment: The book is an execellent reference to anyone interested in the making of guitars, and to know who presently, are among the "elite of luthiers".
Scott Chinnery, an avid collector of guitars, was instrumental in re-igniting a passion for the revival of the arch top, semi-acoustic guitar. It was Chinnery, that approached twenty two of the finest luthiers, and inspired them to the task of creating an eighteen inche (wide) semi-acoustic guitar. Chinnery also requested the guitars be made "blue" - all luthiers used the same color, yet were free to formulate and apply the color as they indivudally desired. The results and finding of this work becomes the topic of the book.
The text presents a challenge to continue the work initiated by these craftpersons. It is "inspirational", and very informative.
Rating: 5
Summary: the Best of the Blues
Comment: What does the ultimate blue archtop guitar look like? 22 master craftsmen were posed with this challenge: "make an 18 inch wide acoustic archtop guitar...make it any way you want, as long as you make it blue."
A virtual competition ensues as the top 'luthiers' get down to business creating their personal vision of the finest blue archtop. Scott Chinery, a collector of fine guitars had amassed a collection numbering over a thousand pieces when he had the notion to commission the best craftsman to make a blue archtop. You don't even have to love guitars to appreciate the wonderfully varied interpretations that came about as a result. The pride of craftsmanship shines through on each and every meticulously crafted piece. This is a handsome book richly filled with photographs of these masterpieces in blue, and the talented men and women behind them. This book is a gem for the price.
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Title: Acquired of the Angels: The Lives and Works of Master Guitar Makers John D'Angelico and James L. D'Aquisto by Paul William Schmidt, Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 1578860024 Publisher: Scarecrown Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Making an Archtop Guitar by Robert Benedetto ISBN: 1574240005 Publisher: Centerstream Publications Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Custom Guitars : A Complete Guide to Contemporary Handcrafted Guitars by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 1890490296 Publisher: String Letter Publishing List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Gibson L5: Its History and Its Players by Adrian Ingram ISBN: 1574240471 Publisher: Centerstream Publications Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Gibson Super 400: Art of the Fine Guitar by Thomas A. Van Hoose, George Gruhn ISBN: 0879303441 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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