What Are Strings Made Of? Bronze- WOund Strings Coated Strings.
From Catgut to Stainless Steel Picking Your Strings. General Playing and Casual Styles Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Blues. Headstock and Neck Inlay Binding, Purfling, and Rosetteįinish. Making a Good Marriage with Your Guitar The Ideal Guitar Does Not Exist Guitars Differ Differently. Table: Approximate Standard Guitar Sizes. Back Bracing and Side Reinforcement Linings, Binding~ and Blocks. Compensation Keeping Your Temper Back and Sides. Function and Structure The Bridge Plate Bridge JiJiOods. Kasha and Other Bracing Systems Damaged Braces. Laminate and Soltd JiJiOod Tops Top Materials and Building. O How Your Guitar Works II: Body Language The Top or Soundboard. H ere s What You Need to Know About Tuners Fanned Frets for Mixed Scales Headstock and Tuners.
Replacing and R epairing Fingerboards Frets. Fingerboard and Frets Fingerboard Materials Position Marker~ Inla" and Binding Twelve- and Fourteen-Fret Necks. Joining the Neck to the Body Neck Joints. Neck Materz"als and Construction Neck Shape and Contour. Į How Your Guitar Works I: Where the Action Is Action and Setup. lVtJod Naming Conventions Table : The Major Guitar Woods Quartersawed /lVtJod Bookmatched Tops and Backs Sets. Seasoning and Milling Solid Wood Seasoning. Laminate Necks and Headstocks Materials and Tone. Laminate Construction Stability and Durability Detecting Plywood. O Wood, Finish, and Glues Plywood and Solid Wood. Harp Guitars and Other Oddities Seven String~ Ten Strings, and More. The Maccaferri ("Django") Guitar Synth Guitar. Solidbody and Semi-Hollowbody Electrics Hawaiian and Other Lap-Style Guitars. The Twelve-String Guitar The Classical Guitar The Flamenco Guitar. , It Takes All Kinds Folk Guitar: The Steel-Strung Solidbody Flattop. The Nostalgic Baby Boomer Market New Sounds for a New Generation. The Early Years of the Steel-String Guitar. The Development of the Modern Classical Guitar. O The Guitar Through History Ancient Origins. ©2000 by Larry Sandberg Foreword ©2000 by Artie Traum All righ ts reserved Second edition Published by A Cappella Books An imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN 1-55652-418-8 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1įoreword.
MLlOI5.G9 S3 2000 00-031788 787.87'19-dc21Ĭover photo: Guitar and bass guitar by Harry Fleishman Photo by John Youngblut, courtesy Harry Fleishman Cover and interior design: Lindgren/Fuller Design Line art by Fred Hickler, based on computer drawings by Larry Sandberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sandberg, Larry The acoustic guitar guide: everything you need to know to buy and maintain a new or used guitar / by Larry Sandberg-2nd ed., rev. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BUY AND MAINTAIN A NEW OR USED GUITAR