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2) The birth of loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the guitar-pioneering rivalry that shaped rock 'n' roll
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A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
3) Guitar boy
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After his mother is severely injured in an accident and his father kicks him out of the house, thirteen-year-old Travis attempts to survive on his own until he meets a guitar maker and some musicians who take him in and help him regain his confidence so that he can try to patch his family back together.
5) Trader
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Newford series volume 6
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Max Trader, guitar maker, artesian, has a ordered and productive life. One morning he wakes to find that he has traded lives with John Devlin. Devlin's life couldn't be more different from Max's. Max gets thrown out of his apartment and discovers that Devlin, now Max, is homeless and out of cash. Max lives on the streets, and in an attempt to reclaim his lost life discovers that the only way to fit into his new identity is to climb into another dimension...
7) Guitars
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"Did you know that not everything is made with machines? In fact, many musical instruments--even guitars--are made by hand. In this book you'll meet business owner Meredith Coloma, who is so passionate about guitars, she learned how to make them by hand." -- Page [4] of cover.
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Brian May and his father Harold started to hand-build an electric guitar in 1963. Brian dreamed of a guitar that would outperform any of the existing commercially made electric guitars; his father had the technical knowledge and skills to help make the dream come true. The written account is accompanied by original diagrams, sketches and notes dating from the building of the guitar, close-ups and x-rays, and photographs of Brian in performance.
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"The inside story of the founding and growth of Taylor Guitars, one of the world's most successful guitar manufacturers Bob Taylor mixes the details of his experience as a tradesman and cofounder of Taylor Guitars, a world-famous acoustic and electric guitar manufacturer, with philosophical life lessons that have practical application for building a business. From the "a-ha" moment in junior high school that inspired his very first guitar, Taylor...
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"Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an afficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instruments were made. And she will likely also tell you about the wood they were made from and its unique effects on the instruments' sound. In Following Guitars, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren trace guitars all the way back to the tree. It is a book about musical instrument making, the timbers and trees from which guitars are made. It chronicles...
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"In the 1960s and 1970s, Randy Wood was one of the pioneers in the vintage instrument industry. He brought cherished pre-WWII instruments back to life, many of which owners and buyers thought could not be repaired. He crafted his own instruments as well and was operating in Nashville during the resurgence of country music and the rapid evolution of the music industry into a business juggernaut. All the while Wood's instruments collectively found their...
15) Made in Mexico
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Describes the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.
16) Inventing the American guitar: the pre-Civil War innovations of C.F. Martin and his contemporaries
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Inventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail. It tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. This transformation happened within a mere 20 years, a remarkably brief period. The person who dominates this history is C. F. Martin Sr., America's first major guitar...
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"Fender guitars and amplifiers are immediately recognizable, even tho those with only a passing interest in music. Beginning with Leo Fender's early designs taht set the standard for the electric guitar explosion to follow, Fender: The Official Illustrated History explores the company's entire story--all the innovations, models, and players that became synonymous with Fender. In addition to the game-changing Telecaster and Stratocaster, author Dave...
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