Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars : An Identification Guide for American Fretted Instruments (2nd Ed) Reviews
02. Jul, 2010 
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Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars : An Identification Guide for American Fretted Instruments (2nd Ed)
- ISBN13: 9780879304225
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The strange chronicle of this beam has sole over 30,000 copies. This latest book has been stretched by 25% as well as promises to turn an useful resource. For collectors, dealers as well as players, this utterly updated “field guide” provides specifications, sequence numbers, as well as some-more for last a newness of selected American acoustic as well as electric fretted instruments. Detailing thousands of models by each vital manufacturer, a book right away includes stretched coverage of Martin, Guild, Mosrite, D
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This book is not a cost guide, though is intensely profitable for identifying used as well as selected instruments.
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The 2nd book of Gruhn’s book is a single of dual books which each guitar gourmet will wish to own. This book is improved than a initial with 100 pages of latest information. If we own a initial book as well as have been wondering if we should buy a second book , buy it. we keep cave inside of strech of my bench. The second book we would suggest is “The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide”. Having these dual books would have for a really prepared consumer.
Review by Joseph H Pierre for Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars : An Identification Guide for American Fretted Instruments (2nd Ed)
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There is no alternative book, to my knowledge, which does what George Gruhn does here.First, let me contend which we apply oneself Mr. Gruhn’s knowledge. There have been substantially couple of people in a United States with his comprehensive believe of guitars. we have corresponded with him myself, as well as he was really helpfulBut, we am unhappy in a single aspect of a book. we own an 1897 indication George Washburn guitar which was done in a nineteenth century by Lyon & Healy. It is a tiny bodied “Parlor Guitar,” with Brazilian rosewood sides as well as back, debonair top, as well as dark fingerboard as well as bridge. It has pleasing tone, as well as we adore a instrument. It is roughly as pleasing as when it was built, as well as since of a aging of a wood, I’m certain which it plays better.In this book, Gruhn usually quickly discusses Washburn’s guitars, as well as a reduced anxiety is buried in a Gibson pages (which is really detailed), since in a late ’20s, when a Tonk Brothers acquired a Washburn code from Lyon & Healy, Gibson built a couple of of them in between 1938-40.George Washburn (someone has pronounced which his final name was essentially Lyon, as a result Lyon & Healy) was an American guitar maker, as well as he built greatest guitars. I’ve listened which his closest foe during a single time was Martin. To give him short-shrift in such a book as this, we find incomprehensible. It isn’t as if Gruhn did not know about a guitars–he told me most of what we know about them.But, maybe we nitpick. This is a excellent book. we suggest it to any guitar backer who is buying, offered or trade guitars–especially American-made guitars–or even a single who simply wants to sense some-more about these smashing instruments.Joseph Pierre
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I found this anxiety to be riddled with ommissions as well as inaccuracies. The Rickenbacker drum territory contains errors in roughly each model. A elementary check of a Rickenbacker website would have prepared a infancy of inaccuracies. Production dates were a many obvious. Now if a book was to be filed underneath “fiction”…
Review by Jonathan E. Segel for Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars : An Identification Guide for American Fretted Instruments (2nd Ed)
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I paid for this second book anticipating to find some-more report than we found in a aged edition, though over expanding a extent of models, a book is still not intensely helpful. Its simple setup is to operate a one-line outline of a shift which occurs to a guitar indication as good as note a year which this happened in. That’s excellent of course, though it certain would be beneficial if a lines referred to illustrations or pictures. a outcome is an intensely dry content outline – as good as it doesn’t even unequivocally go distant enough. for example, a area upon Fender Stratocasters lists each indication via a 20th century, nonetheless a primary list entries of changes appear to stop in a 70s, as good as whilst it does have discuss of a shoulder upon a carry out form routing becoming different in 1959, it doesn’t discuss changes in pickup routing in 1970 or so, nor a further of a belligerent screw shoulder in a carry out form in 1979-81. it mentions how most obvious numbers have been upon a headstock during which year, though no discuss of what they have been nor painting of where they have been placed. no discuss of trademark pattern changes.
the list of buffer sequence numbers is arrange of accurate, though a lowest as good as tip numbers per year listed have been only solid wrong. they competence demeanour in Duchossoir’s book for some-more information!
I consider it competence assistance people to have some-more report upon Norlin-era Gibsons as well, explaining which were done in Kalamazoo as good as which in Nashville as good as how to tell… a single thing i beheld was which they contend how a reintroduction of Les Paul Standard/Deluxe models had 4 square pancake bodies, though in my knowledge I’ve seen some-more really early 70s whose bodies were dual pieces of mahogany with a maple tip as good as had (3-piece) mahogany necks before to 1975 when they became maple, as good as a little even had bodies which were a single square of mahogany.
also given people upon ebay appear to be creation so most income peddling tools of aged guitars, it competence be good for someone to take upon a outline of how to rightly brand potentiometers, capacitors, even knobs, pickup covers as good as tuners!
all of these suggestions would have this a really utilitarian guide! though – generally pictures…. describing how a screw upon all sides changes upon a pickguard from a single year to an additional is not scarcely as distinct as an illustration!