The Making of Stringed Instruments: A Workshop Guide
Language: English
Published by Batsford, 2003
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- Title
- The Making of Stringed Instruments: A Workshop Guide
- Author
- Buchanan, George
- Publisher
- Batsford
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713481404
- ISBN 13
- 9780713481402
Experience the joy of making music in a whole new way—from choosing the wood to playing the last note. More than 500 illustrations and a straightforward text explain every stage of crafting stringed instruments, including detailed plans and instructions for constructing a violin, cello, jazz guitar, mandolin and more.
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Experienced woodworkers who may be interested in making a stringed instrument such as a violin, guitar, or mandolin are the audience for this book, which is in no way a beginner's guide to instrument making. The author uses the old European approach to tasks like carving, gluing, bracing, and finishing, so much so that the book might better be titled "How To Make Instruments the Old-Fashioned Way." Times have changed, however, and instrument-making supply companies now offer a variety of purpose-built tools and woodworking supplies that greatly simplify and speed up the process described here. Books like Robert Benedetto's Making an Arch Top Guitar (Centerstream, 1996), William Cumpiano's Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology (Chronicle, 1994), and Robert Alton's Violin and Cello Building and Repairing (1976) incorporate these newer approaches and would all be better choices for libraries.?Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, R.I.
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