Ever get confused about the difference between quarter-sawn and quartered grain wood? Or about how book-leafed and book-matched wood differs? Or how you distinguish between tiger maple, curly maple, and figured maple? Or don't you?
Whether you are a builder, repair person, or musician, this book is for you!
Siminoff's Luthiers Glossary was originally published in 2008 as a 206-page encyclopedia hosting more than 1,000 definitions of the buzz words and language of the art of luthierie. Now revised and published as a digital eBook to be easily accessed on computers, laptops, tablets, and cell phones, Siminoff's Luthiers Glossary, 2nd edition, features more than 1,300 definitions, 250 illustrations, and 15 reference tables of woods for luthierie, string tensions, frequencies-and-cents, saw blade descriptions, starting string gauges for a range of instruments, an instrument identifier, and much more. Plus 31 color plates of the woods typically used in luthierie shown in both their fine-sanded and finished (lacquered) appearances. A must-have reference book for anyone serious about building or learning more about acoustic stringed musical instruments. And a super manual for advanced luthiers or anyone learning to build guitars, mandolins, or banjos.
In the first edition's endorsement, Lynn Dudenbostel wrote: Be it in the form of workshops, magazine articles, books, or most recently the internet, Roger has been an inspirational "presence" in the shops of an entire generation of luthiers, including mine. Continuing in this tradition, Roger has compiled Siminoff's Luthiers Glossary so that anyone can speak the language of luthierie.
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