Books About Prepared Guitar Techniques
Not much is published about the subject. The classical guitarists Elgart/Yates Duo have written a 24 page booklet Prepared Guitar Techniques on the subject for acoustic guitars. In 2012 Bart Hopkin and Yuri Landman wrote and published Nice Noise, a 72 page book about guitar preparations for acoustic as well as electric guitars. Besides guitar preparation techniques, the book also features several modified and custom built instruments made by Hopkin, Landman, Sonic Youth, Sam Dook of The Go! Team, Bradford Reed (Pencilina), Neil Feather and David Canright.
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