Grand Prize: The Guitar Pickup Handbook
Deadline: May 15, 2009
Retail Value: $25
Gibson Guitars teamed up with Backbeat Books offer you a chance to win this 'must have' handbook by one of the world's best-selling authors of books on guitars and gear.
For every electric guitarist, a book that goes right to the source of the sound!
In The Guitar Pickup Handbook, Dave Hunter traces the history and development of the pickup, from the 1920s to the present day, explaining magnet types, size, and structure, and the many different types of coils.
The “big four” manufacturers — Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker, and Gretsch — are each profiled in detail, alongside overviews of more than 20 other specialist guitar and pickup makers, both new and long established, including Alembic, Tom Anderson Guitarworks, Kent Armstrong, Joe Barden, Burns, Carvin, Danelectro/Silvertone, Fralin, Lollar, Rio Grande, T.V. Jones, Bare Knuckle and others, with lengthy interviews of many leading manufacturers.
With detailed specifications for each model discussed, this guide provides everything you need to know to choose the pickup that is right for you.
Deadline: May 15, 2009
Retail Value: $25
Gibson Guitars teamed up with Backbeat Books offer you a chance to win this 'must have' handbook by one of the world's best-selling authors of books on guitars and gear.
For every electric guitarist, a book that goes right to the source of the sound!
In The Guitar Pickup Handbook, Dave Hunter traces the history and development of the pickup, from the 1920s to the present day, explaining magnet types, size, and structure, and the many different types of coils.
The “big four” manufacturers — Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker, and Gretsch — are each profiled in detail, alongside overviews of more than 20 other specialist guitar and pickup makers, both new and long established, including Alembic, Tom Anderson Guitarworks, Kent Armstrong, Joe Barden, Burns, Carvin, Danelectro/Silvertone, Fralin, Lollar, Rio Grande, T.V. Jones, Bare Knuckle and others, with lengthy interviews of many leading manufacturers.
With detailed specifications for each model discussed, this guide provides everything you need to know to choose the pickup that is right for you.
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