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By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter ...
The differences in our graphs are very subtle. In the first example, the mahogany guitar, you may see brighter yellow horizontal lines that appear slightly lower on the graph than in the second ...
Before he was Ozzy’s right-hand man he was a guitar teacher, and when a student came in with the unassuming Fender, what he ...
Three masters from the International Guitar Foundation explain the differences between classical and flamenco guitars, and ...
It’s all-mahogany construction with a rosewood fingerboard and bridge (plus a gig bag) that comes in at just under $250 – which might well make it the best value travel guitar we’ve seen.
At UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and ...
As advertised, the solidbody, all-mahogany guitar features a high-gloss eagle and flag design on the body and a rosewood fretboard adorned with ‘Make America Great Again’ inlays. “Hey, that's a ...
The first all-mahogany guitar was Martin's 2-17, introduced in the early 1920s. Possibly borne out of the Hawaiian music and ukulele explosion that hit America in the interwar period - Martin ukes ...
When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric ...
When Richard died, he left a stack of mahogany wood in the family barn, sourced from a tree known in the guitar industry simply as “The Tree.” Toppled in 1965 and dragged out of the Belize ...
A set of ordinary mahogany, reddish-brown with straight grains, might run him a couple of hundred dollars. This one, with enough wood for the back and sides of a guitar, cost him in the thousands.
A 12-string guitar played by Beatles stars John Lennon and George Harrison and thought to have been lost for almost 60 years has sold at auction for a whopping $2.9 million. The acoustic Framus ...