Is your guitar a collectors item?

How can you tell? To determine the rarity and value of a fretted insturument you must first identify, date, and establish its originality. Gruhn's guide to vintage guitars is the first comprehensive, portable reference manual for identifying the collector's items among American acoustic and electric guitars,basses, and mandolins.

Take this convenient "field guide" with you to guitar shows or other dealing situations,where yoy'll refer again and again to its extensive list of model specifications for instuments made by the major American manufacturers

Essential for exhibitors,dealers, collectors,musicians and aficionados,this practical guide covers Dopro, Epiphone,Fender, Gipson, Gretsch, Martin, National, Rickenbacker,and more.

George Gruhn began buying and selling instruments in the early 1960s and established his Nashville guitar shop in 1970. it is now one of the largest vintage and used instrument dealership in the world. Walter Carter, a former reporter for the Nashville Tennessean,is author of The Songwriter's Guide to Collaboration .

352 sivua

Gpi books-1991

Isbn: 0-87930-195-3