RIP Andre Duchossoir

[TeleBluesMan]

A. R. Duchossoir passed away. He wrote books about Gibson and Fender electric guitars that were a great source of information in the pre-internet days.
Andre Duchossoir is a legendary name for anyone with a passion for modern guitar and its history. An infatiable scholar of American guitar since the 1970s, he has given guitar enthusiasts a series of precious books.
He was the first to lock himself in the Gibson archives to reconstruct the history of Kalamazoo's company by sifting through incomplete records and chaotic lists. He reconstructed the Fender story from the dawn, revealing the backstories of the places where the instruments were born, shedding light on small and great mysteries, telling the backstory of the cradles of the most beloved and played instruments.
In the pre-Internet world, Andre Duchossoir's books were the bible on which entire generations of guitarists learned about terms such as "pre-CBS", "PAF", "blackguard", "maple top" and many others that became customary in guitar narration.
Three generations of enthusiasts have consumed his "The Fender Stratocaster", "The Fender Telecaster", "Gibson Elecrtics", "Guitar identification", indispensable sources of information not only for the most greedy collector, but for anyone who cares about the instruments that have made the history of modern
music.
Andre Duchossoir has moved away today. He leaves us his magnificent books to read and browse, with the certainty that anyway the people who can tell - and he was a master in this - never die. At most they move away, like Andre.

[Rodger]

I have his Strat and Tele books in my guitar book collection. Great books.

Sad to see he has passed.