Gizmos Gadgets And Guitars The Story Of Leo Fender

Author : Michael Mahin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250849640
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gizmos, Gadgets, and Guitars: The Story of Leo Fender written by Michael Mahin and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picture book biography of ingenious American inventor Leo Fender, creator of the world’s most iconic Fender electric guitars. For readers who love Iggy Peck, Architect. Leo Fender loved to thinker and tinker and take things apart and put them back together again. When he lost an eye in a childhood accident, he refused to think of himself as broken. With a new pair of magnifying glasses, Leo got back to doing what he loved, fixing machines big and small—even broken instruments. His inventions—which included the Telecaster and the Stratocaster—would inspire the rock ’n’ roll generation and go on to amplify the talents of legendary guitarists Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Bonnie Raitt, among others. Fender’s brilliant engineering vision connected science and art forever. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : Sara Green
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fender written by Sara Green and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fender instruments are responsible for some of the worldÕs most famous songs. Since its early days, this company has been at the cutting edge of music. This engaging title for young readers uses detailed text and photos to help readers discover the history of Fender, from its earliest creations to its modern innovations. Features map the companyÕs headquarters, highlight top products, profile the founder, call out charitable giving, and more.

Author : Natascha Biebow
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 132886684X
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crayon Man written by Natascha Biebow and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons QuitandBalloons Over Broadway. purple mountains' majesty, mauvelous, jungle green, razzmatazz... What child doesn't love to hold a crayon in their hands? But children didn't always have such magical boxes of crayons. Before Edwin Binney set out to change things, children couldn't really even draw in color. Here's the true story of an inventor who so loved nature's vibrant colors that he found a way to bring the outside world to children - in a bright green box for only a nickel! With experimentation, and a special knack for listening, Edwin Binney and his dynamic team at Crayola created one of the world's most enduring, best-loved childhood toys - empowering children to dream in COLOR!

Author : Kim Tomsic
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1452176035
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Genius written by Kim Tomsic and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible. Featuring richly detailed, dynamic illustrations by Brett Helquist, this unforgettable biography will resonate with inventive readers young and old.

Author : Ian S. Port
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501141732
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Loud written by Ian S. Port and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In “an excellent dual portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering “spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars” (The Atlantic). “The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new” (The Washington Post).

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ISBN 13 : 9781728432663
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Guitar written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music. But more than a century of effort and innovation had to happen before this instrument went electric"--

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0152062572
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Hungry! written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry is a baby so hungry that he eats all the food in his house, then goes outside to find more.

Author : George Fullerton
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634069222
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitars from George and Leo written by George Fullerton and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Almost every guitarist knows the guitar companies Fender and G&L. Both these companies grew from the successful friendship and business partnership of George Fullerton and Leo Fender. George tells, in his own words, the amazing story of his celebrated collaboration with Leo that, for over 50 years, produced some of the world's most popular and treasured guitars and amplifiers, including the Telecaster, P-Bass and the Stratocaster. This complete history of the Fender organization and the G&L Guitar company, reveals through rare pictures and first-hand accounts, an insider's view of this amazing success story and the friendship that survived for a lifetime. Includes a 16-page photo section featuring George's rare guitars and prototypes. George Fullerton lives in Fullerton, California.

Author : Susan Middleton Elya
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547537271
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bebé Goes Shopping written by Susan Middleton Elya and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quick trip to the supermercado? Not with Bebe in the shopping cart. Just as Mama is ready to throw up her manos, she gives sweet Bebe a box of animal cookies. A dulce, at last! Then they're off to the checkout line, smiling all the way. Includes a glossary of Spanish words.

Author : Betsy Harvey Kraft
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1627799125
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Ferris Wheel written by Betsy Harvey Kraft and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, was to be a spectacular event: architects, musicians, artists, and inventors worked on special exhibits to display the glories of their countries. But the Fair's planners wanted something really special, something on the scale of the Eiffel Tower, which had been constructed for France's fair three years earlier. At last, engineer George Ferris had an idea-a crazy, unrealistic, gigantic idea. He would construct a twenty-six-story tall observation wheel. The planners didn't think it could be done. They called it a "monstrosity." It wouldn't be safe. But George fought for his design. Finally, in December 1892, with only four months to go until the fair, George was given permission to build his wheel. He had to fight the tight schedule, bad weather, and general disapproval. Against all odds, the Ferris Wheel turned out to be the talk of the Fair, and proof that dreaming big dreams could pay off. Today, George's Ferris Wheel is an icon of adventure and amusement throughout the world.