Is the tone really in the wood, and do old guitars really sound better because the wood has dried out? The answers are yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, the seasoned wood used for guitar ...

Brothers [Armand] and [Victor] took their acoustic guitar to the next level, making their own pickups to turn it into an electric guitar. The result is that awesome electric guitar sound. The pickups ...

PHOTOS () —By Edward OrtizMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Classical guitar builder Waylin Carpenter gets a telltale glint in his eye when he talks about guitars. The instrument looms ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK: "I'm not like other guitar players," Jose Feliciano says, stating the kind of truism that is likely to elicit a "no kidding" response from even the most casual music fan. But it's one ...

Musicians are always singing about social change. Now their guitars are getting into the act. Martin Guitar Co. has just unveiled one of the greenest guitars to date: the D Mahogany 09, an acoustic ...

University of Texas Permian Basin music education student Mariah Gomez is building her very own classical guitar. She began the process in May and is eager to complete it by early November. “I tend to ...

Professor Franklin Kimlicko conducts the Tyler Junior College guitar ensemble during the 2017 Arts Festival Coffee House at Tyler Museum of Art. Courtesy Long before Franklin Kimlicko became a ...

The electro-acoustic market market has always faced a challenge; how to make acoustic guitars and pickups that can sound like a guitar unplugged when they're amplified and can hold their own in a mix ...

Three years ago, Yamaha launched a new line of acoustic guitars. Nothing too special about that, you might say, the company does so regularly. But thanks to technology originally developed for its ...

The Beatles’ use of strings and classical musicians in some of their more adventurous song like “A Day in the Life,” “All You Need Is Loves” and the more simple “Yesterday” was unheard of at the time ...