Download or read book Classic Guitars written by Robert Shaw and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not one of them is classical, but the sixty-five superb acoustic and electric guitars from 1834 to 1998 featured in this beautiful little book are definitely classics. The team who produces Pomegranates long-running and highly popular Classic Guitars wall calendar brings us a pocket jewel of a book. Robert Shaws introduction concisely describes the guitars evolution and the twentieth-century explosion of creativity that has resulted in thousands of top-notch luthiers and millions of instruments worldwide. Michael Tamborrino courtesy of Vintage Guitar, Inc. supplies luminous full-color studio photographs of historys most significantor just plain coolestguitars, with illuminating technical and cultural notes by Shaw. Sumptuously produced, inexpensive, and full of absorbing information, Classic Guitars is an obvious choice for those with a guitarist on their gift list. And by now, everybody in the world probably knows a guitarist.