The Folk Guitar as Semiological Object

• Folk guitar: craft or productized artefact?

• • Asian manufacturing companies (e.g., Yamaha (Yamaha, 2006)) producing several versions.
  • ISO9001:2000 companies producing 300,000 units annually not uncommon (Taixing Fengling, 2005).
  • CAD/CAM tool use in manufacturing (Johnston, 2000)