The Fender Book: A Complete History of Fender Electric Guitars

by Tony Bacon

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The Fender Book tells the story of the guitars played by Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and hundreds of others, with fresh research and a gallery of color photographs. A chronicle of Fender, supreme maker of solid-body electrics, the book profiles the finest to the strangest models.

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Brian Priestley is a musician and writer. His books include biographies of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. He writes in The Sax & Brass Book about trumpets and trombones in jazz Dave Gelly is a musician and writer. He is jazz critic for the British Observer newspaper, and his books include a biography of Lester Young and a show more saxophone-playing method Paul Trynka is features editor of Mojo magazine, edited The Electric Guitar and wrote Portrait Of The Blues Tony Bacon co-founded Balafon, independent publisher of books about musical instruments, in 1992 show less

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Music, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
787.87Arts & recreationMusicStringed instruments (Chordophones)Plucked Lute FamilyGuitar
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ML1015 .G9 .B2MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicHistory and criticismInstruments and instrumental music
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