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　　　　　前言

　　为了创作这本书，我们得到了许多音乐家、乐器制作家、博物馆和吉他发烧友无私的帮助。我们应该把这些感激之情归功于Nick Cousins,Juan Marting和John Pearse，感谢他们坚持不懈的给我们关于吉他音乐和历史的建议，也包括我们的责任编辑Richard Ehrlich先生。我们也特别感谢以下人员： 　
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另外，我们也感谢下列录音公司的帮助： 　
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The Ancients were satisfied with such instruments as the guitar... ...
　　　　　　　　_____SIMON GORLIER,1551

... methinks it is but a bauble.
　　　　　　　　 _____SAMUEL PEPYS

For the guitar is the most unpredictable and least rediable musical instrument in existencd-and also the sweetest,the warmest,the most delicate,whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
　　　　　　　　　 _____ANDES SEGOVIA

He was all through the Delta back then,and I used to love to hear him play guitar.He had that bottleneck thing,and he could make the guitar real whiny.
　　　　　 _____MUDDY WATERS,speaking of SON HOUSE

This Machine Kills Fasscists.
　　　　 _____Written on woody GUEHRIE'S guitar

You could go out and eat and come back and the note would still be sounding.It didn'tsound like a banjo or a mandolin,but like a guitar ,an electric guitar.That was the sound I was after.
　　　　　　 _____LES PAUL

I don't have a lvoe affair with a guitar,Idon't polish it after every performance;I play the fucking thing.
　　　　　　 _____PETE TOWNSHEND of THE WHO

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