THE ELECTRIC 1982 GUITAR
Guitar manufacturing and marketing is a big business. That’s obvious. More importantly, guitar playing is an art form that can enable even the poor and the blind to reach people across continents, and to touch each other minds across all barriers of distance, economics, race, religion, and even time itself.
THE ELECTRIC 1982 GUITAR
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Allen Hester
Guitar manufacturing and marketing is a big business. That’s obvious. More importantly, guitar playing is an art form that can enable even the poor and the blind to reach people across continents, and to touch each other minds across all barriers of distance, economics, race, religion, and even time itself. That’s a somewhat less obvious truth that often takes a back seat to the “bottom line” monetary considerations, both in the production of guitars and the performances in which guitars are used. What may not be obvious at all is that his remarkably supple and persuasive instrument we call the guitar is surrounded at once by thousands of years of tradition and the futuristic world of computers and electronics.
Involved in the world of the guitar are wood craftsmen who draw their knowledge from a deep well of tradition and accumulated knowledge drawn over centuries of man’s use of wood and hand-held tools. On the other side of the drawing board stand those who specialize in the most modern methods of computer-assisted research and development. In many cases, both the traditional and the futuristic qualities are combined in the same person.