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Title: Martin Guitar Masterpieces: A Showcase of Artists' Editions, Limited Editions, and Custom Guitars by Dick Boak ISBN: 0-8212-2835-8 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: [no title]
Comment: An amazing book. As a Martin player these past few years, and a couple of years away from placing my own order through the custom shop, I would've loved to see more of the custom models that are made for the players, rather than the celebrity-endorsed, limited editions that are made mostly, I think, for collectors.
There is nothing like a Martin Guitar. And this book showcases some of the most beautiful instruments ever made. Next time, though, give me that inimitable smell of rosewood with a high-gloss finish, a close-up of the herringbone trim on a stock HD-28, and the sustain of an open G. Somebody call Ken Burns, okay?
Rating: 2
Summary: selling the sizzle
Comment: Let me start by saying I love Martin guitars, have played a beloved d-28 since 1968, built guitars and lutes, and have a deep appreciation for luthiers and thier art. Martin is a company which holds my esteem and interest.
Well, the full title of this book isnt mis-leading, but my expectations were not met in reading this book. In a nutshell, this book contains little historical or technical information and is largely a hardcover catalogue for Martins current signature and limited run instruments.
There are a few little tid bits of information here and there for the die-hard Martin geek. Being a guitar geek myself, I appreciate techno babble and tid bits, but this is really nothing other than a very nice photo catalogue. As such, it may have a certain interest to those collectors who want to have the 2002-2003 offering memorialized on thier shelf. Some of the photos are indeed great, with photos of a few truly custom instruments (known among us geeks as guitar 'porn') which would otherwise probably not be seen by many.
I am writng this because having seen the grand book displayed for a few months on merchant shelfs, I had assumed it would be the typical historical account of some great instruments, maybe with info about those involved, such as the artists-but this is not the case-probably because they arent, which is implicit from reading many of the accounts of artist's involvment.
I found it instead to be eye-candy, at best, at worst, little substance in information regarding either instruments, or artists or the company, such as the development of instruments, thier market or even the material used. A ho-hum book for all but the most hungry of Martin collectors. Truly a sad statement for a book by one of Martins marketing people, all form, little substance, selling the sizzle, not the steak.
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Title: C.F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796-1873 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) by Philip F. Gura ISBN: 0807828017 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Martin Guitars: An Illustrated Celebration of America's Premier Guitarmaker by Jim Washburn, Richard Johnston, Stephen Stills ISBN: 0762104279 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Martin Book by Walter Carter ISBN: 0879303549 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: A Guitarmaker's Canvas: The Inlay Art of Grit Laskin by Grit Laskin ISBN: 0879307560 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Gibson Guitars 100 Years of an American Icon by Walter Carter ISBN: 0972751017 Publisher: Gibsons Pub Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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