German Jazz Guitars by Cameron Brown

German Jazz Guitars by Cameron Brown

Most guitarists today think of the USA as the land of the guitar. Classical guitars come from Spain but rock, jazz and folk guitars must surely be American? They know the 'great' names - Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, Martin. How many of them know that Christian Friedrich Martin was born in Markneukirchen, Germany, in 1796 and emigrated to the USA at the age of thirty-seven? The Bate Collection is a museum of musical instruments in the University of Oxford and owns a collection of guitars donated by the author. Half of them were made by German-speaking Czech craftsmen expelled from their homeland after the Second World War, resettling in Bavaria; the other half by their former neighbours in Saxony, with whom they had worked closely for three centuries but who now found themselves behind the Iron Curtain. This book offers a summary of the socio-political background and the way it led to the decline and almost the extinction of what was once the most productive centre of stringed-instrument making in the world. Lavishly illustrated with photos of all of the carefully-researched instruments in the collection, plus a unique guide to help the collector to identify the maker of his instrument.

With an MA in German, Cameron Brown, a retired author and publisher and former merchant bank director has also performed as a musician throughout his adult life. He travelled regularly to East Germany during his banking career. Stefan Lob, also a musician, has an important collection of mid-20th century archtop guitars and has distilled 25 years of research into his world-renowned website.

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ISBN 13	9781916846692
ISBN 10	1916846696
Title	German Jazz Guitars
Author	Cameron Brown
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Unicorn Publishing Group
Year published	2025-04-09
Number of pages	288
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