Should the instruments leap forward in tech like the devices you plug them into? Does the guitar Mount Rushmore need to be ...

Czech guitar maker Furch celebrates its 45th birthday this year – but it’s what acoustic guitars will look like in the ...

For as far back as we are able to look into the prehistory of the human race, music has been a crucial part of the life of humans. Some scholars even speculate that human music may have come before ...

How is it that in a book as rich in description, as full of imagist sound-summonings, spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars as Ian S. Port’s The Birth of Loud, ...

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Online exhibit showing how the need for louder guitars led to the invention and proliferation of the electric guitar and how the emergence and popularity of rock and roll led to the guitar's ...

You’ve decided to pick up an axe and learn to shred like one of the pros. While mastering the guitar is no easy feat itself, before you even start jamming you’ll probably find yourself looking through ...

It is a great instrument, write Sam Jones and James LL Bennett, and playing one provides a visceral thrill Well done, John Harris, for that eulogy for the late, great Wilko Johnson and his (almost) ...

If you dream of starting a band (or just rocking out in your garage), you’re likely going to want an electric guitar. And if you’ve never strummed one before, you’re definitely going to want one ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You've been brushing up your skills on an acoustic guitar, and it feels like the right time to move to a more advanced stage: an electric ...