Boutique Acoustics: 180 Years of Hand-Built American Guitars

Boutique Acoustics: 180 Years of Hand-Built Guitars tells the history behind the important acoustic guitar makers – some recognizable, some obscure – who all have played a key part in the evolution of the instrument and the myriad acoustic guitar models we have on the market today. The book covers the birth of the steel-string, the rise of small factories, the advent of “one-man shops ” the origins of various trends in guitar construction – the design of cutaways; the use of a variety of wo...