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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...

Long before Franklin Kimlicko became a professor of classical guitar at Tyler Junior College, he was a performing musician with bands and orchestras whose career was highlighted by a performance at ...

From warm, dry mahogany to lush, harmonic rosewood, the wood in your guitar’s body and neck can dramatically influence its ...

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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 ...

Fingerstyle guitar opens up a world of melody, harmony, and rhythm all on one instrument. With the right patterns, techniques, and creative chord voicings, you can make your playing richer and more ...