mandolin, harmonica, bass and keyboards, but he has provided engineering skills and even laid the floor tile in the studio restroom. For his own debut as the leader, Hundt brings a rousing, brash album to the welcome mini-revival of blues mandolin recordings, seasoned with the raw vintage Chicago blues flame also kept so well by the Flip Tops. Featuring Nick Moss on bass, Willie Oshawny on keys, Bill Lupkin on harp, Kilborn Alley's Josh Stimmel on guitar and Bob Carter on drums. Piano ace Barrelhouse Chuck guests on one track.  (less)

of today's master craftspeople which marry skills honed over the centuries with innovative use of modern materials and technologies. Among the many rare and magnificent guitars pictured in full color are an 1834 flattop guitar by Christian Frederick Martin with an ivory fingerboard and headstock, a c. 1900 harp guitar hand carved by Orville Gibson, a Martin D-45 prototype made for Gene Autry, a teardrop-shaped archtop by John D'Angelico, and a 1952 doublenecked electric guitar by pioneer designer Paul Bigsby. The book's many unique instruments are juxtaposed with outstanding vintage examples of such classic production models as the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster, the Gibson Les Paul, Flying V, and Explorer, the Hofner Beatle bass, and the Gretsch Chet Atkins Hollowbody. The extraordinary work of today's luthiers is represented in remarkable guitars by such renowned craftspeople as John Monteleone, Grit Laskin, Robert Bennedetto, Linda Manzer, and Abraham Wechter, while such revolutionary modern designs as the Steinberger headless bass and the Parker Fly point the way to the guitar of the future. These and other legendary guitars are complemented by historic black-and-white photographs of important musicians with their favorite instruments. The book's informative and insightful essays explore the technical and design innovations that shaped particular instruments as well as the ways in which such influential musicians as Andres Segovia, Robert Johnson, Maybelle Carter, Eddie Lang, Leadbelly, Django Reinhardt, B. B. King, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton have exploited and expanded the capabilities of the guitar.  (less)

features musical instruments in their pure form along with many other worldly variations. The sound designers at ESC have taken care to accurately reproduce these instruments with great attention to the fine details. All samples retain as much of the natural decay as possible to give you the most control over your sounds. In addition, string and percussion instruments are sampled at multiple velocities which allows the user a whole new level of control over all aspects of performance.As an added bonus there is a special "Best Of" bank of sounds from the legendary PROTEUS 3 WORLD module. The original Proteus series of sound modules are considered true 'classics' in the industry leading the way to countless number 1 hits over the years. Many professional studios around the world still rely on the sound of these industry workhorses. Now you can have access to these vintage world sounds to Empower your compositions.The ESC crew has optimized each sound bank to fully take advantage of the powerful synth engine of the Emulator X & Proteus X Desktop Instruments. Each preset is mapped to the MIDI real-time controllers for enhanced expression. Bank DescriptionsAshiko: Traditional African single head, cone shaped hand drum, capable of producing high and low tones.Baglama: The Bouzouki and Baglama (baby bouzouki) are fretted, double-strung lutes that evolved from the Turkish Saz. They are made of wood have long necks with teardrop shaped bodies. The Bouzouki and Baglama have eight strings (four courses X 2), with the two highest sets tuned in unison and the lower sets tuned in octaves. In more modern times, these instruments became very popular during the 1930's as one of the primary voices in Greek popular music.Balafon: Traditional African twelve note marimba with pentatonic tuning. Each note has one or two gourd resonators suspended below for increased tone and amplification.Bansuris: Bamboo transverse flute common in North Indian Classical music. This bank features four bansuris, bass, tenor, alto and soprano.Bell Rattle: Small jingle bells inside a woven sphere of hemp fiber.Bon Di: Low pitched Chinese bamboo transverse flute with buzzing paper resonator glued over the sound hole.Brazilian Drums & Percussion: This kit is comprised of traditional Brazilian street percussion instruments including Surdo, Bombo, Tamborim, Snare Drums, Ganza, Crashers, Agogo, Triangle, Cuica, Whistles, Recoreco and others, key-mapped to correspond with the General MIDI drum kit convention.Celtic Harp: The Celtic Harp is a diatonic folk harp. It is similar in shape to (but considerably smaller than) the Orchestral Concert harp, with "sharping levers" and no tuning pedals. The Celtic Harp is co  (less)