Guitar An American Life

Name: Guitar An American Life
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ISBN: 9780802142580

ISBN-10: 0802142583

ISBN-13: 9780802142580

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tim Brookes

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How did a small, humble folk instrument become an American icon? Tim Brookes, a commentator and essayist on National Public Radio, set our to answer this question after baggage handlers destroyed his guitar. Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes sees how a rare piece of cherrywood is hued, dovetailed, and worked on with saws, rasps, and files, and learns that a dream guitar is built, not bought.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Intro


Meeting My Maker


The First Guitar


Choosing the Wood


Other Colonists: French and English Guitars


The Chain-saw Phase


Evanescence


Gluing and Voicing the Top


The Hawaiians Have Landed


Bending the Sides


The Starvation Box


Vertebrae n' Roses


Guitars and Guns


Desperadoes


Interlude: Dark Rectangles


Radio Castles in the Air


Interlude: The Worst Guitar


Wrestling the Rosette


The Guitar Breaks In


Interlude: Beating Canned Music


Hogging Off Wood


Bargaining With the Devil


Interlude: Nail Angst


Bearclaw


The Modern Age


Vacuum Packed


Postwar Ennui


Giblets


Killing for a Dime


Interlude: Brian Bull's Guitar


Love Me Tender / The Worst Trip


Scalloping the Braces


The Guitar Just Grabbed Me


Mummified


Something Is Happening


Inlay


Satisfaction


Interlude: Reducing Rick to Jelly


Guitar Rock Takes Over


Interlude: At the Isbin Concert


Applying the Finish


"Vintage" Guitars


Pickups


Sound Check


Setup


Once and Future


Gluing the Nut


Chapter Notes


Appendices


Glossary


Acknowledgments