Covering nearly 100 years of acoustic guitar production, this beautifully illustrated A-Z guide profiles all the major guitar manufacturers - and smaller, specialist companies - detailing their history and their most innovative and successful instruments. Along with photographs of the instruments themselves are pictures of key players from a wide range of musical genres - from a rhinestone-studded Elvis on stage with his Gibson Dove in 1975 to White Stripes' Jack White with a Gretsch acoustic.