256 페이지에 걸쳐 1931년부터 현재까지 Rickenbacker의 역사를 그림 및 사진과 더불어 기술한 책입니다.
1931년 처음 일렉트릭 기타를 탄생시킨 리켄배커의 역사를 다룬 유일한 책이기도 합니다.
리켄배커를 사용했고 또한 지금도 사용하고 있는 수많은 아티스트들을 풀컬러 사진과 함께 소개하고 있습니다. 리켄배커 컬렉터들에게는 최근 밝혀진 정확한 정보들까지 제공하는 좋은 자료가 될 것입니다.


- Contents -

Preface by George Harrison
Foreword by Roger McGuinn
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One - The Early History
The National String Instrument Corporation
   The Tri-Cone Guitar
   The Single Cone National Guitars
   Disagreements at National
   Adolph Rickenbacker
   Forming the National Corporation
   Inventing a Practical Electric Guitar

The Early Rickenbacker Company -- Ro-Pat-In Corporation
   Getting Started

The Electro String Instrument Corporation
   Beauchamp's Patent Fight
   The Early Electric Guitar Market
   The Late 1930s
   The War and Postwar Years

Instruments From 1931 to 1953
   Hawaiian Steel Guitars
      Pre-Production Steels
      The Electro Hawaiian Guitar
      Model B and Model BD Hawaiian Guitars
      The Silver Hawaiian Model
      Model 59
      Model S or NS Model
      The Academy Model and the Ace Model
      Model SD
      Model G (or Deluxe Hawaiian Guitar)
      The Double Neck Hawaiian Guitar

Spanish Guitars
   The Electro Spanish Guitar
   The Ken Roberts Model
   The Artist Model Spanish Guitar
   The Electro String Model B
   The Vibrola Spanish Guitar
   Model S-59 Spanish Guitar
   The Rickenbacker Spanish (SP)

Other Electro String Instruments
   The Electro Mandolin
   The Electro Violin, Viola, and Cello
   The Electro Bass Viol
   Miscellaneous Instruments

Part Two - The Modern Rickenbacker Company
Rickenbacker in the 1950s
   The New Rickenbackers

Rickenbacker in the 1960s
   The Beatles
   The Beatles' Rickenbackers
   The British Invasion Groups and Rickenbacker
   Rickenbacker and the New American Rock Groups

Color Section

   The Transonic Amplifiers
   The Eko Guitars

Rickenbacker in the 1970s

Rickenbacker and the New Music of the 1980s
   The Vintage Series
   Rickenbacker International Corporation

Instruments from 1954 to 1986
   General Notes on Modern Rickenbackers
      Deluxe and Standard Models
   The Rickenbacker Color Guide
   Rickenbacker Vibratos
   Rickenbacker Pickups
   Causes for Inconsistencies
   Odd, But Original

Solid Body Standard Guitars
   Combo 600 (Single pickup) and Combo 800 (Double pickup)
   Combo 400
   Combo 450 Models 900, 950 and 1000
   Combo 650 (Single pickup) and Combo 850 (Double pickup)
   Model 420 and Model 425
   Model 460
   Model 615 and Model 625
   Model 430
   Model 470
   Model 480
   Model 481
   Model 483
   Model 490
   Model 230 Hamburg and Model 250 El Dorado

Rickenbacker Electric Mandolins
   Electric Mandolin
   Mando Guitar

Astro Kit
The Electro Guitars
Hollow Body Standard Guitars - The 300 Series

The Thin Hollow Body Guitars
   Model 310-375
   Model 310-325
   Model 325V59
   Model 325V63
   Model 350
   Models 330-345
   Model 331
   Models 360-375

The Thick Body Series
   Models 380-394
   Models 380-384
   Models 385-389
   Models 390-394

The Thin Full-Body Series Models 330F-375F

The Banjoline and Bantar
   Model 6000
   Model 6005
   Model 6006

Rickenbacker Electric Twelve String Guitars
   Model 360/12 Deluxe
   Model 625/12 and Model 620/12
   Model 325/12 and Model 320/12
   Model 330S/12
   Model 330/12
   Model 450/12
   Model 381/12
   Model 360F/12
   Model 340/12
   Model 331/12 and Model 341/12
   Model 370/12
   Model 370/12WB
   Model 360/12WB
   Model 360/12V64

Convertible Twelve String Guitars
   Model 335/12
   Model 366/12
   Model 456/12

Rickenbacker Electric Basses
   Model 4000
   Model 4001
   Model 4001S
   Model 4005 and Model 4005/6
   Model 4005L
   Model 4005WB
   Model 3000
   Model 3001
   Model 4002
   Model 4003
   Model 4003S
   Model 4001FL
   Model 4001V63
   Model 4008
   Model 2030
   Model 2050

Rickenbacker Doubleneck Instruments
   The Kenny Blackwell Doubleneck
   The Tommy Page Doubleneck
   Model 4080
   Model 362/12
   Model 4080/12

The Rickenbacker Export Guitars
   Model 1995
   Model 1996
   Model 1997 (two pickups) and
   Model 1998 (three pickups)
   Model 1999
   Model 1993
   Model 3261 and Model 3262

Unusual and Custom Rickenbackers
   The Custom-Built
   The El Toro
   Rick Nelson's Custom Acoustic
   Jim Reeves and the Blue Boys' Guitars
   Tom Petty's and Michael Campbell's Mystery Guitar

Appendix One: Dating Rickenbacker Guitars
Appendix Two: Production Totals for 1932-1942
Appendix Three: Patents
Appendix Four: Production Totals for GUitars and Basses 1954-1968
Chapter Notes
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