The Dream Factory: Fender Custom Shop - Couverture souple

Tom Wheeler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1423436989 ISBN 13 : 9781423436980

Editeur : Hal Leonard, 1900

Synopsis

This third in a series of hardcover books joins the award-winning titles The Stratocaster Chronicles and The Soul of Tone by author/historian Tom Wheeler. In nearly 600 pages, The Dream Factory features hundreds of full-color photos of incredibly rare, collectible, and limited-edition handcrafted guitars. Learn how the Fender Custom Shop, originally intended to employ just two master craftsmen, grew into the most prolific custom instrument shop in the music industry. Features: · Foreword by Billy F Gibbons · More than 630 images illustrating the first master builders and their humble beginnings through the many changes up to present-day operations. Includes many one-of-a-kind custom guitar masterpieces and reproductions of acclaimed guitarists' instruments, such as Eric Clapton's Blackie, Jimi Hendrix's Monterey Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan's No. 1, and many more. A must-have for all guitar enthusiasts! · Unprecedented view inside one of the music industry's most creative custom instrument shops, revealing how playable works of art are created · Fascinating interviews with the shop's founders, most of the first-generation Master Builders, all of the current Master Builders, other key craftspeople, sales representatives, artists' guitar techs, marketers, executives, guitarists, and many of the graphic artists, woodcarvers, jewelers, pinstripers, graffiti artists, pearl-inlay specialists, and others who have partnered with the Master Builders to create art works of stunning beauty

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This third in a series of hardcover books joins the award-winning titles "The Stratocaster Chronicles" and "The Soul of Tone" by author/historian Tom Wheeler. "The Dream Factory" features hundreds of full-color photos of incredibly rare, collectible, and limited edition handcrafted guitars. In over 600 pages, learn the fascinating tale of the Fender Custom Shop and its illustrious artisans as only Tom Wheeler can tell it. It features: foreword by Billy F Gibbons; and, over 630 images illustrating the first master builders and their humble beginnings through the many changes up to present-day operations. It includes many one-of-a-kind custom guitar masterpieces and reproductions of acclaimed guitarists' instruments, such as Eric Clapton's Blackie, Jimi Hendrix's Monterey Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan's No. 1, and many more. It is a must-have for all guitar enthusiasts! It includes unprecedented view inside one of the music industry's most creative and prolific custom instrument shops. It offers fascinating interviews and stories from the men and women who set the standard for guitar greatness. It features behind-the-scenes looks at how playable works of art are created.

Biographie de l'auteur

TOM WHEELER was the editor in chief of Guitar Player magazine for ten years, founding editorial director of Bass Player magazine, and continued to provide a monthly column for Guitar Player for ten additional years. He has written many books, American Guitars: An Illustrated History, The Stratocaster Chronicles, and The Soul of Tone. He has also contributed to dozens of other books on guitar, as well as being interviewed by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, MTV, the BBC, and CNN. He is a consultant to the Smithsonian Institute and host of informational videos for Fender and Guild.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hal Leonard
• Date d'édition: 1900
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1423436989
• ISBN 13: 9781423436980
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
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