James Westbrook; Arian Sheets; Richard Johnston sku-23367056
No rating yet(0 ratings)Inventing the American Guitar is a Musical Instruction book listed under James Westbrook; Arian Sheets; Richard Johnston as sku-23367056. It describes the early history of American guitar design and how a European instrument acquired the features of the American flat-top guitar within 20 years. The book follows C. F.
Martin Sr., America's first major guitar maker and founder of the Martin Guitar Company. After leaving Saxony for New York in 1833, he made guitars modeled on those of his mentor, Johann Stauffer of Vienna. By the time he moved his family and business to rural Pennsylvania in 1839, he had incorporated influences from Spanish guitars he had encountered in New York.
His further experiments in Pennsylvania produced a distinctly American guitar before the Civil War. The book also traces his development as a craftsman and entrepreneur. The Martin Guitar Company continues to make flat-top guitars. The source listing links to a BBC video and article, How Martin Guitars Became an 'American Stratavarius'.
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