Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument by Allen St. John
Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument, by Allen St. John, reviewed by Tom Birch, Branch Manager, Zauel Library
ISBN: 0743266358
Wayne Henderson of small town Rugby, Virginia, is both a gifted blue grass and old time guitar player and a master acoustic guitar builder. Henderson, who honed his skills at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, builds guitars one at a time using the finest materials including Appalachian red spruce, Brazilian rosewood and ebony. The waiting list is ten years long. Author St. John, a columnist with the “Wall Street Journal,” befriended Henderson, then witnessed and even assisted in the crafting of two guitars for Eric Clapton.
ISBN: 0743266358
Wayne Henderson of small town Rugby, Virginia, is both a gifted blue grass and old time guitar player and a master acoustic guitar builder. Henderson, who honed his skills at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, builds guitars one at a time using the finest materials including Appalachian red spruce, Brazilian rosewood and ebony. The waiting list is ten years long. Author St. John, a columnist with the “Wall Street Journal,” befriended Henderson, then witnessed and even assisted in the crafting of two guitars for Eric Clapton.
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