A Collection of Fine Spanish Guitars from Torres to the Present by Sheldon Urlik

A Collection of Fine Spanish Guitars from Torres to the Present by Sheldon Urlik (RARE 1997 Hardcover First Edition)

The extensive Spanish guitar collection featured in this book spans from the mid-nineteenth century, when the seminal luthier Antonio de Torres began the modern era of Spanish guitar making, to the present. Each guitar has a chapter containing a detailed physical description, comments, insights, anecdotes, notes on its maker and an array of photographs.

This book documents 68 Classical and Flamenco guitars in, likely, the finest collection of modern Spanish guitars existent. Together these splendid guitars, many rare and irreplaceable, magnify the importance of the work that created them, and reveal the differences in woods, shapes, sizes, embellishments, finishes, and construction methods that make each instrument distinctive.

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